Software Engineer II, Athena Engine Front End

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 158,000 - 214,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that enables fast analysis of data in S3. The Software Engineer II, Athena Engine Front End will own features end to end, shape designs with input from senior engineers, and ship code through robust release pipelines.

You will operate what you ship in production, ensuring correctness and reliability for millions of queries daily. The role emphasizes building scalable, multi-engine query routing and maintaining high performance and safety as the

Qualifications

• Strong experience with distributed systems design and operations.
• Solid object oriented design skills and architectural thinking.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages listed in qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Own features and services end to end from design to production.
• Collaborate with senior engineers and managers to shape designs.
• Build, test, ship, and operate code in production.
• Ensure correctness, reliability, and safety of deployments.
• Respond to incidents and improve system resilience.

Skills

Distributed systems

Object Oriented Design

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Job description

Software Engineer II, Athena Engine Front End

Job ID: 10505887 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Every day, customers run millions of queries on Amazon Athena, from ad-hoc exploration to mission-critical pipelines. Athena is now building its next-generation engine across multiple engines (e.g. Spark, DuckDB) and the Engine Front End team is responsible for the query lifecycle management and routing queries to the right engine with the optimal configuration.

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that simplifies data analysis in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to set up or manage. Our customers use Athena to process logs, perform data analytics, and run interactive queries and get started quickly. This is all done through a simple, easy to use API in front of a complex, distributed system.

Key job responsibilities

Our ideal candidate has strong programming skills and sound judgment about distributed systems that customers depend on every day. As an SDE II on the team you will own features and services end to end: shape designs with input from senior engineers and your manager, build, test, ship through our release pipelines, and operate what you ship in production. The problems are concrete and hard. Route millions of queries a day across engine generations without customers noticing. Prove a new engine build is safe before it takes production traffic. Keep the submission path fast and reliable while the engine underneath it changes. Everything you ship is exercised by every query Athena runs, so we care about engineers who sweat correctness, deployment safety, and failures that make sense to customers. We expect you to learn the system deeply, raise problems we have not spotted yet, and grow toward driving designs independently.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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USA, NY, New York - 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually

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