Software Development Engineer, Sahale - Amazon.com

DESCRIPTION

• Extending HubSchema's canonical model and spoke converters to support new storage formats and compute engines
• Evolving the PartiQL specification, its Kotlin/JVM and Rust implementations, and runtime performance for latency-sensitive use cases
• Building schema validation, conversion, and compatibility-checking services that guard data quality at Amazon scale
• Delivering HubSchema service APIs that power schema operations across the BDT platform
• Contributing to PartiQL as an open-source project
• Design, implement, and operate core components of PartiQL and HubSchema used across Amazon's data platform
• Build and extend HubSchema spoke converters (Iceberg, Avro, Parquet, Glue, Redshift, Ion) and the canonical schema model
• Develop schema validation and compatibility APIs that detect type mismatches, precision loss, and breaking changes before they reach production
• Enhance PartiQL runtime performance (lazy evaluation, async execution, zero-copy Ion integration) for latency-sensitive consumers
• Drive HubSchema integration across BDT services, replacing legacy one-off conversion logic with unified library converters
• Contribute to the open-source PartiQL specification and reference implementations
• Collaborate with partner teams across BDT (Catalog, Compute, Cradle, Maestro, DataCraft) to deliver end-to-end customer experiences
• Raise the bar on operational excellence, testing, and engineering quality for systems in the critical path of Amazon's data ecosystem

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent