Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.
Posted Jun 29, 2026
Sr. Software Development Engineer, Amazon Athena - Engine
Midtown · Onsite · Senior · $184.9K–$250.2K
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Posted$184,900–$250,200 / year
USA, NY, New York - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
H-1B record$179K Company-wide NYC H-1B median offered wage at Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.: $178,900 (156 filings, Oct 2025–Jun 2026). Not specific to this role.
About the role
Every day, customers run millions of queries on Amazon Athena -- from ad-hoc exploration to mission-critical pipelines. Today, they get results. Tomorrow, we want them to understand why their queries behave the way they do -- how much they cost, where time is spent, what went wrong, and what to do about it. We're developing new capabilities in Athena to enable customers, both external and internal, to do this.
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.
We are looking for a senior engineer to work within the team and across analytics in creating solutions to provide customers with insights into their usage of Athena while keeping the Athena experience as simple as possible. This includes publishing data to customer accounts, using your experience in AI/ML to drive deeper and more valuable insights and optimizations for customers and in our service. You'll have an opportunity to coach and mentor the team, learn more about query engines from the team and through experience, and grow our ability to make Athena even easier to use.
Key job responsibilities
Our ideal candidate has excellent programming skills, is an independent decision-maker with high judgement to build distributed systems supporting and delighting customers. As a senior engineer on the team you will work on finding ways to help customers extend Athena simply, scale and automate operations, and help develop others on the team and across the organization. We expect you to identify problems we haven't thought of yet. The best candidate sees a gap in the customer experience and builds the case (and the system) to close it.
A day in the life
The Insights & Extensions team is part of the Athena Engine organizations. In this role, you will work through other SDEs on our team, partner with your manager and other Sr. SDEs in and outside of our team to build and execute our roadmap. This includes Athena extensions like Federated Query, User Defined Functions, and helping find new ways to help customers extend Athena. You will work across our org to deliver the right solutions for customers with our core Athena control plane and engine team partners.
About the team
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
- 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
- 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
- 4+ years of highly scalable systems experience
- Experience with training and deploying machine learning systems to solve large-scale optimizations, or experience operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
USA, NY, New York - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
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.
We are looking for a senior engineer to work within the team and across analytics in creating solutions to provide customers with insights into their usage of Athena while keeping the Athena experience as simple as possible. This includes publishing data to customer accounts, using your experience in AI/ML to drive deeper and more valuable insights and optimizations for customers and in our service. You'll have an opportunity to coach and mentor the team, learn more about query engines from the team and through experience, and grow our ability to make Athena even easier to use.
Key job responsibilities
Our ideal candidate has excellent programming skills, is an independent decision-maker with high judgement to build distributed systems supporting and delighting customers. As a senior engineer on the team you will work on finding ways to help customers extend Athena simply, scale and automate operations, and help develop others on the team and across the organization. We expect you to identify problems we haven't thought of yet. The best candidate sees a gap in the customer experience and builds the case (and the system) to close it.
A day in the life
The Insights & Extensions team is part of the Athena Engine organizations. In this role, you will work through other SDEs on our team, partner with your manager and other Sr. SDEs in and outside of our team to build and execute our roadmap. This includes Athena extensions like Federated Query, User Defined Functions, and helping find new ways to help customers extend Athena. You will work across our org to deliver the right solutions for customers with our core Athena control plane and engine team partners.
About the team
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
- 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
- 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
- 4+ years of highly scalable systems experience
- Experience with training and deploying machine learning systems to solve large-scale optimizations, or experience operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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 - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually