Software Development Manager - AWS Glue, Glue and GenAI for Data Processing
Amazon · East Palo Alto, CA · Software Development
About this role
Amazon is hiring a manager-level Engineering Manager in the software engineering function based in East Palo Alto, CA. The posting calls out experience with SQL, AWS, Redshift, Spark. Compensation is listed at $212,700–$287,700 per year.
- Role
- Engineering Manager
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- manager
- Track
- hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- East Palo Alto, CA
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Mar 27, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersAre you a technical leader who wants to build AI agents that solve real problems for data engineers at scale? We're hiring a Software Development Manager to lead a team building agentic AI systems across AWS Glue, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Athena — some of AWS's largest analytics services, powering hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide. What You'll Own: Spark Upgrade Migration Agents Our agentic AI turns 6-12 month Spark version upgrades into weeks — through automated code transformation, conversational interfaces, and rigorous data quality validation. Enterprise customers are already using it across hundreds of workloads. We're expanding into broader SQL migration across AWS Analytics services (Athena, SparkSQL, Redshift) over the next 2-3 years. Learn more: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/introducing-apache-spark-upgrade-agent-for-amazon-emr/ Managed Analytics MCP Service A fully managed Model Context Protocol server providing AI assistants (Kiro, Claude, Cline) and agents secure access to Spark upgrade, migration, troubleshooting, and code recommendation tools. Built on JSON-RPC with IAM-based permissions and CloudTrail auditability. Why This Role: - This is a 0→1 product area expanding in scope — you'll shape the roadmap for AI-powered developer tools across AWS Analytics - We went from idea to GA in under a year; the pace is real - You'll work directly…