Software Development Engineer

About the role

Amazon is breaking new ground and changing the rules for relational databases. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are the public cloud. AWS commands a majority of the world's public cloud traffic, serving customers at ultra large scale, and this volume is growing exponentially every day. At Amazon/AWS, we take databases to their limits. Due to our scale, we see issues that no other RDBMS customers see. We are creatively and disruptively solving some of the most complex database problems related to immense growth, scaling, leveraging the cloud, extremely high performance and high availability requirements. Do these types of challenges excite you? Do you want to part of the core group that's responsible for availability and durability of the world's largest fleet of relational databases on cloud? If you're an engineer who want to be significant part of this core group, come on board! We are eager to brainstorm, mentor, and get software built together. We have challenging problems to solve in distributed systems, concurrency, high availability, durability, performance, languages, and performance engineering. We intend to be the world's best and most reliable database, built by an excellent team, all while having fun - come join us on the journey!

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience on highly concurrent, high throughput systems and knowledge of complex distributed systems
• Experience building/operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets
• Experience designing stateful Apache Flink applications utilizing CDC ingestion, checkpoint optimization, and exactly-once delivery into Apache Iceberg or similar lakehouse formats
• Proven ability to build REST APIs for lifecycle management and deploy high-throughput, low-latency workloads on EKS/Kubernetes with a focus on auto-recovery and zero-downtime upgrades

Pay

USA, CA, East Palo Alto - 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually. 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.