Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Data Lake & Governance

Amazon; East Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 193,300 - 261,500; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services is seeking a Software Development Engineer III for the AWS Sagemaker Lakehouse Catalog in East Palo Alto. You will help build large-scale distributed systems for data management and governance in the cloud.

Join a team focused on solving real-world data problems, mentoring engineers, and delivering scalable, reliable software across AWS services like S3, Glue, and Athena.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience leading design or architecture of complex systems.
• Mentor, tech lead, or engineering team leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of performance, memory management, and parallel computing.

Responsibilities

• Translate requirements into architecture, design and extensible code.
• Advocate best-practices for reliable, scalable software.
• Code and test complex modules and leverage frameworks.
• Participate in reviews to uphold high development standards.
• Mentor engineers and help grow a fast-moving team.

Skills

Big Data

Distributed Systems

Server-less

Mentor/Tech lead

Performance optimization

Software engineering best practices

Code reviews

Education

Master's degree

Job description

Amazon Web Services is seeking a Software Development Engineer III for the AWS Sagemaker Lakehouse Catalog in East Palo Alto. You will help build large-scale distributed systems for data management and governance in the cloud.

Join a team focused on solving real-world data problems, mentoring engineers, and delivering scalable, reliable software across AWS services like S3, Glue, and Athena.