Software Engineer II, Athena Engine Front End

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

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on payments

Restricted stock units (RSUs)

Health benefits

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon in New York, NY is seeking an SDE II to contribute to the Engine Front End team, owning features end to end and shaping designs with senior input. You will ship via release pipelines and operate what you ship in production.

You will tackle concrete, hard problems in distributed systems, routing millions of queries across engine generations while maintaining safety and reliability in production.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience for distributed systems.
• 1+ years designing large‑scale, multi‑tiered, multi‑threaded software applications and services.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• Experience programming with at least one software language.

Responsibilities

• Own features and services end to end from design to production.
• Route millions of queries across engine generations with zero customer impact.
• Prove new engine builds are safe before production traffic.
• Learn the system deeply and grow toward independent design ownership.

Skills

Distributed systems thinking

Architectural design

Multi-threaded programming

Big data concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Math

Tools

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Job description

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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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