Software Development Engineer, AI Upgrades & Transformation
Amazon - East Palo Alto, California, USA
Posted May 8, 2026
Benefits
- Parental leave
- 6 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- Non-birth-parent leave
- 6 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- Family-building benefits
- Mental health support
- Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- Relocation assistance
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- Childcare support
- Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- Learning budget
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- Verification
- Source-linked checked Jun 7, 2026
- Salary
- $165K-$224K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- 401(k) match
- Reported from DOL Form 5500 industry filing (not employer-specific)
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Market context
- U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
- $116,543 U.S. median for this role
- Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
- +9.8% - Much faster than average
67% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.
Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.
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- Equity
- Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026
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About this role
Software Development Engineer, AI Upgrades & Transformation East Palo Alto, California, USA Do you enjoy working on large-scale distributed systems and Agentic AI ? The team manages the Apache Spark Upgrade Agent for Analytics services (Glue, EMR, Athena), the Remote MCP Service (SageMaker Unified Studio MCP), and the AWS Glue Python Service - Product and Runtime. Apache Spark Upgrade Agent[1], is a new generative Agentic AI capability that enables customers to upgrade their Apache Spark applications to newer versions. Spark upgrades traditionally require 6-12 months of engineering effort for customers due to analyzing API changes, resolving dependency conflicts, and validating functional correctness across hundreds of enterprise applications. Apache Spark Upgrade Agent, reduces upgrade timelines from months to weeks through conversational interfaces, automated code transformation, and rigorous data quality validation, allowing engineers to use natural language for upgrades while maintaining approval control over changes and freeing engineering capacity for strategic innovation. The Remote MCP service is a fully managed Model Context Protocol server that provides customers using AI assistants (Kiro, Claude, Cline) and Agents secure access to value-added Spark Troubleshooting, Code Recommendation and Upgrade tools for Analytics services. Remote MCP service provide Agents with a MCP-compliant (Json-RPC-based interface) for Tool calls with IAM based permissions and auditability through AWS CloudTrail. The team also manages Glue Python Shell product and runtime. Glue Python Shell customers use Python 2 (2.7) and Python 3 (3.6 & 3.9). [1] Spark Upgrade agent - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/introducing-apache-spark-upgrade-agent-for-amazon-emr/ Key job responsibilities - Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive,
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