Software Development Engineer, Data Platform , Fauna

Amazon • New York, NY

1d • $158,100 - $213,800 • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to build the foundational data systems that power our robotics and machine learning development. In this role, you will design and implement the infrastructure for collecting, storing, processing, and transforming the vast amounts of data generated by our robots—from sensor telemetry and video streams to operational logs and performance metrics. You will own the services, APIs, and distributed systems that ingest, store, process, and serve it reliably at scale. You will work across the stack and partner directly with applied scientists and robotics engineers, turning their evolving needs into durable platform capabilities.

Requirements

• 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
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++
• Experience building and operating distributed services or APIs in production
• Experience with large-scale data storage technologies (object stores, columnar formats, time-series or relational databases)

Nice To Haves

• Track record of building internal data platforms or tooling that accelerate ML for science and engineering teams
• Experience partnering directly with researchers or scientists to turn experimental workflows into durable platform capabilities
• Familiarity with ML workflows and how data systems support model training
• Experience with robotics, IoT, or other high-volume sensor data (time-series, video, point clouds)
• Experience with cloud data platforms (AWS, GCP) and hybrid on-prem/cloud architectures
• Proficiency with SQL and query optimization for large datasets

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable services and distributed systems for ingesting, storing, and serving large volumes of multimodal robotics data
• Own components end-to-end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and on-call
• Build well-designed APIs and tooling that let researchers and engineers discover, query, and process large datasets efficiently
• Develop real-time and batch processing systems for preparing data for ML training
• Partner with science and engineering teams to translate evolving requirements into reusable platform capabilities

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level