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Need an AWS EMR developer to tame your big data chaos? At Upstaff, our EMR experts are primed to spin up clusters, crunch datasets, and deliver big data solutions that actually work. They’re wizards with Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce—running Spark, Hadoop, or Presto on AWS to process mountains of info fast and cheap. Whether you’re analyzing logs, training models, or building data pipelines in 2025, our devs have the skills to keep your EMR setup humming and your costs in check.

These pros don’t just push buttons—they’ll tune your EMR clusters for speed, script automation with Step Functions, and dodge those nasty over-provisioning bills. They’ve got real chops from live projects, like scaling a Spark job or recovering a stalled workflow. Hiring an AWS EMR developer with us means you’re getting someone who can handle petabytes without blinking, making your data play nice with the rest of your AWS stack.

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Azure 5yr.
Python 4yr.
SQL 5yr.
Cloudera 2yr.
Apache Spark
JSON
PySpark
XML
Apache Airflow
AWS Athena
Databricks
Data modeling Kimbal
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics
Power BI
Tableau
AWS ElasticSearch
AWS Redshift
dbt
HDFS
Microsoft Azure SQL Server
NoSQL
Oracle Database
Snowflake
Spark SQL
SSAS
SSIS
SSRS
AWS
GCP
AWS EMR
AWS Glue
AWS Glue Studio
AWS S3
Azure HDInsight
Azure Key Vault
API
Grafana
Inmon
REST
Kafka
databases
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- 12+ years experience working in the IT industry; - 12+ years experience in Data Engineering with Oracle Databases, Data Warehouse, Big Data, and Batch/Real time streaming systems; - Good skills working with Microsoft Azure, AWS, and GCP; - Deep abilities working with Big Data/Cloudera/Hadoop, Ecosystem/Data Warehouse, ETL, CI/CD; - Good experience working with Power BI, and Tableau; - 4+ years experience working with Python; - Strong skills with SQL, NoSQL, Spark SQL; - Good abilities working with Snowflake and DBT; - Strong abilities with Apache Kafka, Apache Spark/PySpark, and Apache Airflow; - Upper-Intermediate English.

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Seniority Senior (5-10 years)
Location Norway
Python 8yr.
AWS
R 1yr.
AWS SageMaker (Amazon SageMaker)
BERT
Keras
Kubeflow
Mlflow
NumPy
OpenCV
PyTorch
Spacy
TensorFlow
C++
Apache Spark
Beautiful Soup
NLTK
Pandas
PySpark
Apache Airflow
AWS Athena
Power BI
AWS ElasticSearch
AWS Redshift
Clickhouse
SQL
AWS EC2
AWS ECR
AWS EMR
AWS S3
AWS Timestream (Amazon Time Series Database)
Eclipse
Grafana
Kafka
MQQT
Kubernetes
OpenAPI
ArcGIS
GPT
Guroby
ONNX
Open Street Map
Rasa NLU
...

- 10+ years experience working in the IT industry; - 8+ years experience working with Python; - Strong skills with SQL; - Good abilities working with R and C++; - Deep knowledge of AWS; - Experience working with Kubernetes (K8s), and Grafana; - Strong abilities with Apache Kafka, Apache Spark/PySpark, and Apache Airflow; - Experience working with Amazon S3, Athena, EMR, Redshift; - Specialised in Data Science and Data Analysis; - Work experience as a team leader; - Upper-Intermediate English.

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Seniority Expert (10+ years)
Location Poland
Python
PySpark
Docker
Apache Airflow
Kubernetes
NumPy
Scikit-learn
TensorFlow
Scala
C/C++/C#
Crashlytics
Pandas
Apache Hive
AWS Athena
Databricks
Apache Druid
AWS EMR
AWS Glue
API
Stripe
Airbyte
Delta lake
DMS
Xano
...

- 4+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, focused on ETL automation, data pipeline development, and optimization; - Strong skills in SQL, DBT, Airflow (Python), and experience with SAS, PostgreSQL, and BigQuery for building and optimizing ETL processes; - Experience working with Google Cloud (GCP) and AWS: utilizing GCP Storage, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, AWS S3, Glue, and Lambda for data processing and storage; - Built and automated ETL processes using DBT Cloud, integrated external APIs, and managed microservice deployments; - Optimized SDKs for data collection and transmission through Google Cloud Pub/Sub, used MongoDB for storing unstructured data; - Designed data pipelines for e-commerce: orchestrated complex processes with Druid, MinIO, Superset, and AWS for data analytics and processing; - Worked with big data and stream processing: using Apache Spark, Kafka, and Databricks for efficient transformation and analysis; - Amazon sales forecasting using ClickHouse, Vertex AI, integrated analytical models into business processes; - Experience in Data Lake migration and optimization of data storage, deploying cloud infrastructure and serverless solutions on AWS Lambda, Glue, and S3.

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Seniority Middle (3-5 years)
Python 6yr.
OpenCV 6yr.
Pandas 6yr.
NLP 6yr.
C++
NumPy
PyTorch
Scikit-learn
Xgboost
Matplotlib
Pillow
SciPy
Databricks
AWS DynamoDB
FireStore
PostgreSQL
Matillion
AWS EC2
AWS EMR
AWS Glue
AWS S3
Google Cloud AI
Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Docker
Terraform
Git
Linux
Faiss
Statsmodels
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- Software engineer with 6 years of experience in data science and computer vision. - Proficient in Python, C++, and various data science libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, and scikit-learn. - Experienced in developing real-time computer vision algorithms for iOS and Android devices. - Skilled in dataset gathering, neural network training, and model optimization using Inference Triton Server. - Developed and integrated a face reenactment algorithm for photo editing. - Familiar with DevOps and MLOps tools such as AWS, Docker, and Google Cloud. - Holds a Master's degree in Data Science and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Ukrainian Catholic University.

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Seniority Senior (5-10 years)
Location Ukraine
Apache Hadoop
Kafka
GCP
AWS
AWS ML (Amazon Machine learning services)
Machine Learning
JavaScript
PL
Python
Scala
JSON
Apache Hive
Apache Pig
Attunity
AWS Athena
Databricks
Domo
Flume
Hunk
Impala
Map Reduce
Oozie
Presto S3
Snaplogic
Sqoop
AWS Redshift
Cassandra
Google BigQuery
MySQL
Neteeza
Oracle Database
Snowflake
SQL
Azure
AWS EMR
AWS Kinesis
AWS Quicksight
AWS SQS
Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Apache Solr
Bamboo
BitBucket
Git
IBM Rational ClearCase
Linux
Windows
*nix Shell Scripts
Splunk
artificial intelligence
Cloudera search
Lex
Polly
VSS
...

- 8+ year experience in building data engineering and analytics products (Big data, BI, and Cloud products) - Expertise in building Artificial intelligence and Machine learning applications. - Extensive design and development experience in AZURE, Google, and AWS Clouds. - Extensive experience in loading and analyzing large datasets with Hadoop framework (Map Reduce, HDFS, PIG and HIVE, Flume, Sqoop, SPARK, Impala), No SQL databases like Cassandra. - Extensive experience in migrating on-premise infrastructure to AWS and GCP clouds. - Intermediate English - Available ASAP

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Seniority Senior (5-10 years)
Python 10yr.
SQL 10yr.
Talend ETL 10yr.
AWS EC2
Apache Airflow
PHP
Apex DataLoader
Salesforce
C/C++/C#
Jasperreports
Schedulers
Pandas
PySpark
AWS Athena
Jupyter Notebook
Presto S3
AWS ElasticSearch
AWS Redshift
Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL
Oracle Database
PostgreSQL
SQLAlchemy
Teradata
AWS Boto3
AWS Cloudformation
AWS EMR
AWS Lambda
AWS S3
Google Data Studio
Datadog
JMeter
New Relic
Cloud IAM
MWAA
RDS
RMAN
Unix\Linux
...

- Senior Data Engineer with 10+ of experience specializing in designing, optimizing, and maintaining data infrastructures, data flow automation, and algorithm development. - Has expertise in Python, SQL/NoSQL, ETL processes, PySpark, Apache Airflow, and an array of AWS services, complemented by a strong foundation in database systems and cloud-based solutions. Proven capability in handling large-scale data analytics and processing with a focus on performance and cost efficiency in cloud environments. Proficient in developing robust ETL pipelines, performing data migrations, and optimizing complex queries and storage procedures, leveraging extensive experience across multiple industries and platforms. - Start: ASAP - English: Upper-Intermediate

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Seniority Expert (10+ years)
Location Limassol, Spain
Java 15yr.
Python 3yr.
Hadoop ecosystem
Apache Spark ML
Deep Learning
Machine Learning
PyTorch
Scala
Apache Spark
Spring
Vaadin
Hibernate/JPA
JavaFX
Spring Boot
Spring Data
Spring Integration
Spring JDBC
Spring model-view-controller (MVC) framework
Swing
Mockito
NLTK
Apache Hive
Apache Oozie
AWS Athena
AWS ElasticSearch
Cassandra
HDFS
HDP
MariaDB
MongoDB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AWS
GCP
AWS API Gateway
AWS Cloudformation
AWS EC2
AWS EMR
AWS Lambda
AWS RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service)
AWS S3
AWS SNS
AWS SQS
Agile
Scrum
TDD
Waterfall
Ansible
Bamboo
Gradle
Jenkins
Kubernetes
OpenVPN
Apache Maven
JMeter
JUnit
Kafka
BIND
Kerberos
LDAP
Camunda
Eclipse
Nginx
Terraform
CUDA
FairSeq
FindBugs
Grid Computing
IntelliJ IDEA
JMH
KeyCloack
MPI
Natural Language Processing
Network technologies
OpenCL
OpenMP
PMD
Ranger
Raspberry PI
Spark MLLib
Spark Standalone cluster
Stanford Core NLP
virtualization
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• 10+ year experience with JAVA and Linux operating systems: Java 11, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, MySQL/MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Jenkins CI • Big Data, Data Engineering, NLP, Corpus Linguistics, ML, DL • Design and implement a distributed warehouse system (AWS migration), REST API design and cache implementation (1,000-10,000 requests/sec), Design and implement high-load microservices • Deliver special courses devoted to concurrency and prepared handbook on “Parallel and Distributed Computations” [technologies: (basics of OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, OpenCL), advanced in Java concurrency]; • Scientific projects at university related research increasing effectiveness of crypto-analysis • Upper-Intermediate English • Available Full-time • Ready to start in 2 weeks • No scheduled vacations within next 3months

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Location Ternopil, Ukraine

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Want to Hire an AWS EMR Developer? Then You Should Know How They Work Efficiently!

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What’s AWS EMR All About?

AWS EMR—Elastic MapReduce—is Amazon’s cloud tool for chewing through big data without the hardware hassle. It’s a managed service that spins up clusters to run frameworks like Apache Spark, Hadoop, or Hive, processing everything from terabytes of logs to real-time streams. Launched back in 2009, by 2025 it’s a go-to for teams who want scalable, pay-as-you-go analytics—tied into S3 for storage and IAM for security. It’s less about reinventing the wheel and more about making big data doable.

What AWS EMR Developers Can Do For You

Our EMR devs are clutch for all kinds of data jobs. In e-commerce, they’ll set up Spark on EMR to crunch sales data—think customer trends in hours, not days. For tech firms, they can stream logs from Kafka into EMR, parsing errors on the fly with Presto. They’re also ace at machine learning—running MLlib models on EMR clusters for fraud detection or predictions. Anywhere you need big data solutions—ETL pipelines, ad-hoc queries, or batch jobs—these devs make EMR sing.

Who Are Our AWS EMR Developers?

Our EMR squad’s a talented bunch—some kicked off with data engineering, others pivoted from DevOps or backend roles. They’re sharp with Spark or Hadoop, fluent in Python or Scala, and know AWS like their backyard—S3, EC2, you name it. Most have wrestled with cloud clusters before, tweaking EMR configs or syncing with Redshift. They’re the type who’ve stayed up late chasing a shuffle bottleneck and still cracked it by morning.

How to Tell If an EMR Dev’s Got the Goods

How do you know an AWS EMR developer’s legit? Ask what they’ve tackled—have they launched a Spark cluster on EMR or sorted a Hive query mess? Look for ones who’ve cut costs with spot instances or debugged a failed step. Our devs can walk you through scaling an ETL job or fixing an out-of-memory crash. If they’ve got tales—like optimizing EMR cluster management with auto-scaling or troubleshooting S3 lags—they’ve been in the grind and come out on top.

AWS EMR Tech in 2025 and Beyond

By March 2025, AWS EMR’s still a big data beast—tight with Spark 3.5 and leaning harder into serverless vibes with EMR Serverless. Our developers see it syncing tighter with AWS’s AI push—think SageMaker feeding models straight into EMR—or handling edge data as IoT grows. Features like Graviton processors are shaving costs, and integrations with Lake Formation are smoothing data lakes. Looking ahead, expect EMR to mesh with real-time analytics and hybrid clouds, staying a workhorse for big data solutions. Hiring an EMR dev now keeps you dialed in as AWS doubles down—they’ll ride the wave and keep your data flowing.

How and where is AWS EMR used?

  • Log Analysis: Analyzing log data for insights
  • Data Warehousing: Processing large datasets for analysis
  • ETL Processing: Extract, Transform, Load tasks
  • Clickstream Analysis: Studying user behavior on websites
  • Genomics Analysis: Processing genetic data
  • Machine Learning: Training ML models at scale
  • Fraud Detection: Identifying fraudulent activities
  • Real-time Analytics: Processing data in real-time
  • IoT Data Processing: Handling massive IoT data streams
  • Image Recognition: Analyzing images for various purposes

Compare Junior, Middle, Senior, and Expert/Team Lead AWS EMR Developer roles

Seniority NameYears of experienceResponsibilities and activitiesAverage salary (USD/year)
Junior0-2 yearsResponsibilities & Activities:

  • Assist in basic code development.
  • Support testing and debugging.
$70,000
Middle3-5 yearsResponsibilities & Activities:

  • Develop data processing frameworks.
  • Optimize EMR performance.
$90,000
Senior6-8 yearsResponsibilities & Activities:

  • Lead EMR architecture design.
  • Mentor junior developers.
$110,000
Expert/Team Lead9+ yearsResponsibilities & Activities:

  • Define EMR best practices.
  • Manage project timelines.
$130,000

 

Quick Facts about AWS EMR.

  • In the year of the glorious 2009, AWS EMR Software Development was born!
  • Projects that love to dance with AWS EMR include Big Data and Data Processing.
  • Getting cozy with AWS EMR requires you to have a decent understanding of cloud computing.
  • AWS EMR’s best buddy is Apache Spark, they make a killer team!
  • Did you know? AWS EMR can process data at speeds faster than a cheetah on caffeine!

 

TOP AWS EMR Related Technologies

    1. Apache Spark

(Apache, 2014)

    1. Hadoop

(Apache, 2006)

    1. Presto

(Facebook, 2012)

    1. Flink

(Apache, 2016)

    1. Hive

(Apache, 2010)

 

What are top AWS EMR instruments and tools?

  • Amazon EMR Notebooks: Jupyter notebooks for EMR
  • AWS Glue: Data catalog and ETL service
  • Apache Zeppelin: Web-based notebook for data exploration
  • Apache Hadoop: Open-source framework for distributed storage and processing
  • Apache Spark: Fast cluster computing system
  • Apache Hive: Data warehouse infrastructure
  • Livy: REST service for Apache Spark

 

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FAQs on AWS EMR Development by AWS Specialists

What is an AWS EMR Developer and How They Ensure Client Satisfaction Arrow

An AWS EMR Developer is a specialist in the AWS EMR framework/language, focusing on developing applications or systems that require expertise in data collection using this particular technology. When you hire AWS developers, you ensure that your project is built with the right skills and expertise in AWS EMR to deliver efficient data processing solutions.

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Hiring through Upstaff.com gives you access to a curated pool of pre-screened AWS EMR Developers, ensuring you hire AWS developers quickly and efficiently for scalable solutions.

How Do I Know if an AWS EMR Developer is Right for My Project with Over a Decade of Experience? Arrow

If your project involves developing applications or systems that rely heavily on AWS EMR for cloud solutions, then hire AWS developers would be essential to ensure optimal performance and scalability.

How Does the Hiring Process Work on Upstaff.com to Enhance Operational Efficiency? Arrow

Post Your Job: Provide details about your project.
Review Candidates: Access profiles of qualified AWS EMR Developers.
Interview: Evaluate candidates through interviews.
Hire: Choose the best fit for your project.

What is the Cost of Hiring an AWS EMR Developer Based on Project Scope? Arrow

The cost depends on factors like experience, project scope, and communication skills, but Upstaff.com offers competitive rates and flexible pricing options.

Can I Hire AWS EMR Developers on a Part-Time or Project-Based Basis for the Entire Project? Arrow

Yes, Upstaff.com allows you to hire AWS EMR Developers on both a part-time and project-based basis, depending on your needs for access management.

What are the Qualifications of AWS EMR Developers on Upstaff.com with a Deep Understanding of the Platform? Arrow

All developers undergo a strict vetting process to ensure they meet our high standards of expertise and professionalism, enabling them to provide creative solutions.

How Do I Manage an AWS EMR Developer Once Hired with Extensive Experience? Arrow

Upstaff.com offers tools and resources to help you manage your developer effectively, including communication platforms and project tracking tools for data modeling.

What Support Does Upstaff.com Offer During the Hiring Process to Meet Project Requirements? Arrow

Upstaff.com provides ongoing support, including help with onboarding and expert advice to ensure you make the right hire for skilled developers.

Can I Replace an AWS EMR Developer if They Are Not Meeting Expectations During the No Risk Trial Period? Arrow

Yes, Upstaff.com allows you to replace a developer if they are not meeting your expectations, ensuring you get the right fit for your project involving data pipelines.