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Software Development Engineer, AWS EMR

Amazon

Location

East Palo Alto, CA

Type

Full-time

Posted

5/29/2026

Compensation

$165,200 - $223,600 per year

Undergraduate with 2+ Years of Experience
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Job description

The AWS EMR Control Plane team is seeking engineers to work on scaling a widely used AWS service focused on large-scale distributed systems. This role offers the chance to collaborate with senior engineers and tackle complex challenges in big data processing. Engineers will work with a variety of AWS technologies and contribute to innovative features for Amazon EMR. A passion for engineering and a willingness to learn are highly valued in this collaborative team environment.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language
  • 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards and operations
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with senior and principal engineers on complex problems
  • Develop innovative features for the next-generation cluster and work management system
  • Improve real-time processing of big data
  • Enable customers to interact more easily with their data
  • Work with various AWS technologies including DynamoDB, Lambdas, and EC2

Benefits

  • Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.

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