Software Dev Engineer II, AWS Transactional Services (Database & Distributed Systems), Transactional Services

About the role

The Transactional Services organization builds foundational distributed systems that power the largest AWS services. We specialize in high-performance, strongly consistent data systems that operate at massive scale. Our systems process over 4 million writes per second today and are growing fast.

Responsibilities

• Design and build highly available, low-latency distributed log and database systems that process millions of writes per second for AWS's most critical services.
• Own end-to-end delivery of software projects from requirements through design, implementation, deployment, and production support.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in production distributed systems using systematic debugging, performance profiling, and deep analysis of system behavior under failure conditions.
• Design and implement efficient data structures and algorithms optimized for throughput, latency, and memory efficiency in performance-critical paths.
• Identify and execute opportunities to reduce system latency and optimize cost efficiency across the platform.
• Drive improvements to security, reliability, durability, and performance across multiple foundational services.
• Lead and contribute to multi-year, cross-team migration and integration efforts with high-profile partner teams.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and pairing sessions.
• Establish and evolve engineering best practices and operational processes for the team.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications: 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience, 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience, 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience, 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience, 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience, Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence, Experience with Java or Rust in performance-sensitive environments
• Preferred Qualifications: 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience, Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence, Experience with Java or Rust in performance-sensitive environments

Skills

• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Comfortable reasoning about algorithmic complexity, concurrency primitives, and the trade-offs inherent in distributed systems
• A sharp eye for detail
• A passion for getting to the root cause
• Willingness to go deep on distributed systems and database internals

Benefits

• 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.

Pay

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.

USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

Schedule

Not specified