[Skip to main content](#main-content) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) [Hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [All Amazon jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/) · [Search jobs](/search/) Amazon · New York, NY # Software Engineer II, Athena Engine Front End US, NY, New York Software Engineering Listed on Amazon’s official careers site. Posted September 9, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there. [Apply on Amazon’s careers site →](https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10534469/software-engineer-ii-athena-engine-front-end) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [Amazon](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/) / Software Engineer II, Athena Engine Front End ## Job description Every day, customers run millions of queries on Amazon Athena, from ad-hoc exploration to mission-critical pipelines. Athena is now building its next-generation engine across multiple engines and the Engine Front End team is responsible for the query lifecycle management and routing queries to the right engine with the optimal configuration. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that simplifies data analysis in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to set up or manage. Our customers use Athena to process logs, perform data analytics, and run interactive queries and get started quickly. This is all done through a simple, easy to use API in front of a complex, distributed system. ### Key job responsibilities Our ideal candidate has strong programming skills and sound judgment about distributed systems that customers depend on every day. As an SDE II on the team you will own features and services end to end: shape designs with input from senior engineers and your manager, build, test, ship through our release pipelines, and operate what you ship in production. The problems are concrete and hard. Route millions of queries a day across engine generations without customers noticing. Prove a new engine build is safe before it takes production traffic. Keep the submission path fast and reliable while the engine underneath it changes. Everything you ship is exercised by every query Athena runs, so we care about engineers who sweat correctness, deployment safety, and failures that make sense to customers. We expect you to learn the system deeply, raise problems we have not spotted yet, and grow toward driving designs independently. ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Sep 9, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Oct 11, 2026 - Last checked: Oct 11, 2026 - Listed for: 32 days - Location: US, NY, New York[Apply on Amazon’s careers site →](https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10534469/software-engineer-ii-athena-engine-front-end) ## More jobs at Amazon ### [Director, Product Management, AWS Developer Tools](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/d3c73e69befc35bfa1f6/) US, NY, New York ### [Manager III, Software Development, Ad Services](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/f4b0d61befbe7999bbe1/) US, NY, New York ### [Marketing Manager, Global Builder Lofts, Developer Experience](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/fcf0eb718c81ce99d3ce/) US, NY, New York ### [Robotics Senior Software Engineer, Fauna](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/7b056fc64dbe64f88389/) US, NY, New York ### [Robotics Software Engineer, Fauna](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/fc1a3e130e312bd310bf/) US, NY, New York ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Senior Lead Software Engineer - Precious Metals / Front Office / Athena](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/jpmorganchase/jobs/296618c43caf7b20701f/) JPMorganChase · New York, NY, United States ### [Senior Platform Software Engineer, OCI Kubernetes Engine](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/oracle/jobs/cc5a082bec23488e42f4/) Oracle · Nashville, TN, United States ### [Software Engineer, Realtime Engine Technology - Reality Labs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/meta-platforms/jobs/d3ce0c4246c001e2287a/) Meta Platforms · Los Angeles, CA +2 more ### [Senior Engineer – Agile Software Development – CDS / Engine System Software P3 (Onsite)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/rtx/jobs/953ea83dfbb1eb2cbdc1/) RTX ### [Sr. Principal Engineer – Agile Software Development – CDS / Engine System Software P5 (Onsite)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/rtx/jobs/9a1dab82126796ba7428/) RTX OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. Dates come from the employer where stated; “first seen” and “last checked” are our own observations. OpenNash Jobs · Official listings with dates and links to the employer. [Weekly hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [Methodology](/methodology/)