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Senior SDE, AWS SageMaker Data Preparation
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Job Location:
Bellevue, WA - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 168100 - 227400
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
29 September 2026 (Yesterday)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
27 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Are you a highly skilled and innovative SDE with a passion for developing new machine learning capabilities and driving innovation to build customer-centric solutions in Amazon SageMaker AI Are you interested to play a key role in developing software applications at AWS We invite you to join us and be part of making history.
The Data Preparation team enables customers to generate high-quality synthetic data and ensure data quality across AI workflows. The goal is that every AI practitioner on SageMaker can produce tailored high-quality datasets for model training fine-tuning and evaluation without needing deep data engineering expertise.
As a Senior SDE on this team you will own the design and delivery of large-scale highly available distributed systems that power the end-to-end ML development experience. You will drive technical vision influence product direction and raise the engineering bar across the organization. You will be responsible for leading the team in building and maintaining capabilities within our best-in-class machine learning offering as well as scaling those systems to support our customers workflow orchestration automation needs.
Engineers on the Amazon SageMaker Data Preparation team are expected to consistently experiment with new technologies and ideas in order to drive innovation and ensure SageMaker remains a best-in-class service. You will be held to the highest standards of engineering and operational excellence including building highly resilient and scalable systems producing clear and effective technical documentation actively contributing to discussions on strategic direction and continuously raising the bar. Most importantly you will have the opportunity to collaborate with a team of highly skilled and dedicated engineers who share a commitment to achieving new levels of success.
About Amazon SageMaker AI
Amazon SageMaker AI is a fully managed machine learning service that simplifies the process of building training and deploying machine learning models. It abstracts away the undifferentiated heavy-lifting associated with large-scale machine learning implementations allowing developers and data scientists to focus on the core modeling and problem-solving aspects of their work. SageMaker is currently utilized by businesses of all sizes including some of the worlds leading enterprises across a growing number of geographic regions.
About the team
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
Key job responsibilities
**Technical Leadership** Lead the architecture design and implementation of complex software systems. Define long-term technical strategy and drive alignment across teams.
**System Design & Delivery** Own end-to-end delivery of large-scale distributed services with high availability low latency and operational excellence.
**Cross-Team Influence** Collaborate with product science and partner engineering teams to define roadmaps and deliver customer-obsessed solutions.
**Mentorship & Bar Raising** Mentor engineers across levels conduct design and code reviews and actively raise the technical and operational bar for the team.
**Operational Excellence** Champion best practices in CI/CD observability testing and incident management. Drive a culture of ownership and accountability.
**Innovation** Identify opportunities to simplify automate and improve the developer experience. Contribute to patents publications or open-source projects where appropriate.
**Customer Obsession** Deeply understand customer workflows and pain points; translate insights into scalable intuitive platform capabilities.
- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The Data Preparation team enables customers to generate high-quality synthetic data and ensure data quality across AI workflows. The goal is that every AI practitioner on SageMaker can produce tailored high-quality datasets for model training fine-tuning and evaluation without needing deep data engineering expertise.
As a Senior SDE on this team you will own the design and delivery of large-scale highly available distributed systems that power the end-to-end ML development experience. You will drive technical vision influence product direction and raise the engineering bar across the organization. You will be responsible for leading the team in building and maintaining capabilities within our best-in-class machine learning offering as well as scaling those systems to support our customers workflow orchestration automation needs.
Engineers on the Amazon SageMaker Data Preparation team are expected to consistently experiment with new technologies and ideas in order to drive innovation and ensure SageMaker remains a best-in-class service. You will be held to the highest standards of engineering and operational excellence including building highly resilient and scalable systems producing clear and effective technical documentation actively contributing to discussions on strategic direction and continuously raising the bar. Most importantly you will have the opportunity to collaborate with a team of highly skilled and dedicated engineers who share a commitment to achieving new levels of success.
About Amazon SageMaker AI
Amazon SageMaker AI is a fully managed machine learning service that simplifies the process of building training and deploying machine learning models. It abstracts away the undifferentiated heavy-lifting associated with large-scale machine learning implementations allowing developers and data scientists to focus on the core modeling and problem-solving aspects of their work. SageMaker is currently utilized by businesses of all sizes including some of the worlds leading enterprises across a growing number of geographic regions.
About the team
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
Key job responsibilities
**Technical Leadership** Lead the architecture design and implementation of complex software systems. Define long-term technical strategy and drive alignment across teams.
**System Design & Delivery** Own end-to-end delivery of large-scale distributed services with high availability low latency and operational excellence.
**Cross-Team Influence** Collaborate with product science and partner engineering teams to define roadmaps and deliver customer-obsessed solutions.
**Mentorship & Bar Raising** Mentor engineers across levels conduct design and code reviews and actively raise the technical and operational bar for the team.
**Operational Excellence** Champion best practices in CI/CD observability testing and incident management. Drive a culture of ownership and accountability.
**Innovation** Identify opportunities to simplify automate and improve the developer experience. Contribute to patents publications or open-source projects where appropriate.
**Customer Obsession** Deeply understand customer workflows and pain points; translate insights into scalable intuitive platform capabilities.
- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA BELLEVUE - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually
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