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# Senior Software Engineer, Athena Engine Front End

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $184,900.0 - $250,200.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon S3, Data Analysis, Code Review, Computer Programming, Software Design Patterns, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Data Processing, Delivery Pipeline, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control, Serverless Computing, Programming Languages
- **Published:** August 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10497291/senior-software-engineer-athena-engine-front-end

## About the Role

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

Preferred Qualifications

 - 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

## Description

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.

Every day, customers run millions of queries on Amazon Athena, from ad-hoc exploration to mission-critical pipelines. The Engine Front End team is responsible for the query lifecycle management and routing queries to the right engine with the optimal configuration. We are ultimately the bridge between the low-level execution engines that process data and the "magic" behind the Athena customer experience that makes it easy and simple to use for customers., Our ideal candidate has strong programming skills and sound judgment about distributed systems that customers depend on every day. As a senior engineer on the team you will own features and services end to end: shape designs, 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.


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