Senior Software Development Engineer, Insights Data Services
Amazon · Seattle, WA
$168,100–$227,400from the description
Jul 10, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building and maintaining large-scale distributed data pipelines that process billing and cost data for AWS customers. Day-to-day work involves profiling and optimizing Spark jobs on EMR, improving data freshness and query performance, and contributing to architecture decisions. The role suits an experienced engineer comfortable with both hands-on coding and technical leadership, including mentoring peers and driving design reviews.
Senior level · 5+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 22,000 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 16,500–28,600
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The JD names Spark and EMR only in narrative/context sections ('technologies like Spark and EMR', 'profiling a Spark job on EMR'), not in any requirements block — treated as preferred stack context rather than hard gates.
The three required skills (software development experience, programming language experience, and architecture/design experience) are all stated at the role level with '5+ years' each; because none is tied to a specific named technology, they are captured in the overall years minimum (5) rather than as individual skill entries. The architecture/design requirement is the closest to a named skill but refers to general design patterns and scaling principles rather than a concrete tool.
A Bachelor's degree in computer science is listed under Preferred Qualifications only, so the degree requirement is set to None.
The alt SOC 15-1243 (Database Architects) is noted because the role centers heavily on data pipeline architecture and data modeling at massive scale, though the primary day-to-day work is writing and shipping distributed systems code, which aligns more closely with Software Developers (15-1252).
Compensation includes sign-on payments and RSUs in addition to the stated base salary range.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): software development, system design.
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