22 hours ago
Base Salary
$200k - $271k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the full structured data stack, including connectivity, query engines, semantic layers, and agents.
- Lead architectural transformation of a live production system serving millions of customers and billions of queries per month.
- Diagnose systemic problems, define technical strategy, shape product direction, and drive execution across multiple teams.
- Balance modernization and AI-native engineering practices with existing-system stability, reliability, correctness, and performance.
- Take unscoped problems end-to-end from defining the approach through shipping production code.
- Advance AI-assisted development, automated testing, and LLM-driven code generation practices.
Requirements
- 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 8+ years of programming experience with at least one modern programming language.
- 8+ years leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience operating and evolving large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Experience serving as a technical leader across multiple teams and driving architecture and engineering excellence.
- Preferred: full-stack data systems experience across connectivity, query engines, and semantic layers.
- Preferred: data warehousing, lakehouse, query processing at scale, agentic AI, AI-powered data interfaces, or large-scale semantic layer and BI platform experience.
- Preferred: experience balancing existing-system stability with large-scale architectural transformation.
- Preferred: 10+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Amazon offers health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D coverage, employee assistance and mental health support, a medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
- Benefits include 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, sign-on payments, and restricted stock units.
- The position is based in Seattle, Washington, USA; the base salary range is $200,100.00-$270,600.00 annually, excluding sign-on payments and RSUs.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.