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Software Development Engineer, AWS EMR

Amazon - East Palo Alto, California, USA

Posted May 28, 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
  • Fertility benefits: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
  • Adoption assistance: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
  • Surrogacy assistance: Not verified
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
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Salary
$165K-$224K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
401(k) match
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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.

Role

Role function
Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
Seniority
Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

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Weekend work
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Company

Company stage
Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
Equity
Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Software Development Engineer, AWS EMR East Palo Alto, California, USA Do you enjoy working on large-scale distributed systems? Do you want to influence how the world interacts with and analyzes large data sets across a number of industries and use cases? The AWS EMR Control Plane team is looking for smart engineers to work on scaling a heavily used AWS Service. If you want to work with a team solving some of the most interesting challenges in distributed systems, building solutions for large scale problems, please talk to us! Amazon EMR is the industry leading cloud-native big data platform for processing vast amounts of data quickly and cost-effectively at scale. Using open source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, and Presto, coupled with the dynamic scalability of Amazon EC2 and scalable storage of Amazon S3, EMR gives analytical teams the engines and elasticity to run Petabyte-scale analysis for a fraction of the cost of traditional on-premises clusters. We are developing innovative new features including our next-generation cluster and work management system, improvements for real-time processing of big data, and ways to enable customers to more easily interact with their data. In this role, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from senior and principal engineers who are domain experts at AWS. You will be part of a collaborative and growing team working on complex problems for a successful and long-running product. You will have an opportunity to learn and influence how our

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