Software Development Manager, Open Data Analytics Engines
Amazon · Redmond, WA · Software Development
About this role
Amazon is hiring a manager-level Engineering Manager in the software engineering function based in Redmond, WA. The posting calls out experience with SQL, AWS, Serverless, Spark. Compensation is listed at $184,900–$250,200 per year.
- Role
- Engineering Manager
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- manager
- Track
- hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Redmond, WA
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Feb 20, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersThe Open Data Analytics Spark Performance team is looking for a skilled manager to help in our mission to provide the world’s fastest and easiest-to-use cloud Big Data processing platform. We develop the AWS Runtime for Spark, which is 100% API compatible with Apache Spark and is designed to run with superior performance and scalability on customer-managed EC2 clusters, EKS clusters, and in serverless environments. Our runtime is featured on AWS services including Athenaand EMR, which enable AWS customers to run millions of clusters performing large scale analytics against vast datasets. In the last 3 years Open Data Analytics has improved our engines by a factor of 5x by making changes to the plan optimizer, query runtime, and storage connectors. We have also made significant changes to the compiler to enable enterprise features like fine-grained access control. This is a “must-win” strategic area in a growing and very technical space. As a manager in this space, you will own speeding customer workloads by shipping query performance optimizations in the AWS Runtime for Apache Spark. Your team will apply and extend our automated statistical analysis tools to ensure that these optimizations can be delivered to all AWS Spark customers and allow…