Sr. Software Development Engineer – Big Data, AWS Elastic MapReduce (EMR), EMR EKS
Amazon - East Palo Alto, California, USA
Posted May 22, 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
- Not verified
- 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
- $193K-$262K 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
95% 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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Company
- Equity
- Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026
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About this role
Sr. Software Development Engineer – Big Data, AWS Elastic MapReduce (EMR), EMR EKS East Palo Alto, California, USA Want to change the world with Big Data and Analytics? Come join us on the Amazon Web services (AWS) Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team! EMR is a massively scaled distributed service that gives users fast and predictable Big Data performance with clusters running Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Impala, Spark, Presto, HBase and more, with the ability to effortlessly scale up and down as needed. We run millions of customer clusters, enabling processing on vast datasets. We are developing innovative new features including the next-generation cluster management system, real-time processing for big data and intuitive ways of interacting with data, and we're looking for top engineers to build them from the ground up. This is a hands-on position where you will be do everything from designing and building extremely stable components and features for the savviest customers in the business to help them get the best results. You will have a chance to work with the open source community and contribute significant portions its software to open source projects possibly including Hadoop, Spark, Pig and Hbase. You need to not only be a top software developer with excellent programming skills, an understanding of big data and parallelization, and a stellar record of delivery but also excel at leadership and customer obsession and have a real passion for massive-scale computing. If you want to truly test your mettle against the hardest challenges in distributed systems to
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