Software Development Engineer II, AWS Sagemaker Lakehouse Catalog

Be part of a team which is passionate about solving real world data management and governance challenges. Come build large scale distributed systems that are central to the next generation of analytics in the cloud.

AWS Lake Formation is a service that helps build and secure data lakes in a simple, scalable, server-less architecture. We are looking for software engineers to join our growing team!

As a Software Engineer in Lake formation you will:

• Solve unique and first-order problems in areas of Big Data, Distributed Systems, and Server-less data processing
• Influence and build products that will leverage scale of resources to orchestrate data management and governance
• Be catalyst to deliver a truly disruptive product while still early enough to have impact and influence

Key job responsibilities

• Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture, design and extensible code
• Be an advocate of industry best-practices to produce reliable, fault-torrent and dependable code
• Code and test complex system modules; develop and leverage frameworks to be effective and efficient
• Participate in architecture, design and code reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Mentor other engineers, defining our challenging technical culture, and helping to build a fast-growing team

A day in the life
Morning coffee in hand, you dive into Slack to catch up on overnight discussions

By mid-morning, you're deep in code, building features that help customers wrangle petabytes of data without breaking a sweat. You might be designing a new orchestration framework, squashing a gnarly concurrency bug, or whiteboarding with teammates to architect a solution that scales elegantly from startup to enterprise.

After lunch, you join a design review where ideas fly freelyYou collaborate with partner teams across AWS (think Glue, S3, Athena) to ensure Lake Formation plays nicely in the broader analytics ecosystem.

During oncall, you hop on a call with a customer or solutions architect to understand a real-world data governance challenge. These conversations fuel your work, you're not just writing code; you're solving problems that help organizations unlock the value of their data securely and at scale.

Before wrapping up, you spend time mentoring a newer engineer, reviewing code, or spiking on a crazy idea that might just work.

You close your laptop knowing you've built something meaningful !

About the team
We are builders and data people that are obsessed with our customers and take-on big challenges. We support each other and encourage different views. We also like to have a bit of fun along the way.

About AWS
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.