Principal Engineer, AWS Athena and Glue ETL
Core
Design and own serverless compute orchestration and multi-tenant routing for AWS analytics platforms (Athena, Glue, Zero-ETL) serving hundreds of thousands of customers.
Role type
Principal Engineer, serverless data infrastructure
Builds
Serverless compute layer for interactive SQL, Spark analytics, and data integration pipelines
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, serverless analytics
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
distributed systems design, multi-tenant compute platforms, resource orchestration, scheduling, latency optimization, technical leadership, architectural alignment
Preferred skills
platform telemetry, Apache Spark ecosystem, large-scale technology migrations, compute utilization optimization, VPC networking, Linux kernel tuning, SQL analytics engines
Technologies
Apache Spark, Trino, Presto, Apache Iceberg, Hive Metastore, VPC, Linux kernel
Responsibilities
Own platform components end-to-end, drive compute latency optimization, optimize compute utilization, architect platform convergence, lead cross-team technical alignment, mentor senior engineers
Seniority
Principal, strategy & mentorship
