Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Elastic MapReduce (EMR)

Amazon • Redmond, WA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to help us drive the technical direction of EMR and deliver innovative features that enable an interactive, secure, and seamless experience for our growing customer base. A key focus is our next-generation cluster management system, designed with an emphasis on speed, reliability, and security. You will own the design and implementation of critical high-performance, large-scale services and libraries, driving solutions to complex business problems with a high degree of autonomy. You will set the technical bar for the team — defining SDLC best practices, shaping architectural decisions, and influencing the long-term technical roadmap. In this role, you will collaborate with and mentor engineers across the team, partnering with senior and principal engineers who are domain experts at AWS. You will operate in a fast-paced environment working on complex problems for a successful and long-running product, with a focus on delivering high-quality software that directly impacts how customers run large-scale data workloads. Our ideal candidate has deep expertise in distributed systems, strong engineering judgment, and a track record of delivering impactful technical work with broad organizational influence.

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Nice To Haves

• 5+ 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

Responsibilities

• Own the design and development of large-scale distributed services that power Amazon EMR's cluster management platform, serving thousands of customers worldwide.
• Drive architectural decisions and technical roadmap for core control plane components, balancing speed, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate with product, science, and engineering teams to deliver new EMR capabilities end-to-end, from design through production.
• Set the engineering bar for the team — establishing coding standards, leading design reviews, and ensuring operational excellence across services.
• Mentor and grow engineers at multiple levels, fostering a culture of technical rigor and continuous improvement.
• Identify and resolve complex distributed systems challenges at scale, proactively improving reliability, performance, and customer experience.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree