Software Development Engineer II, AWS Catalog

About the role

Within AWS, our Catalog solutions span Glue Data Catalog, Lake Formation, and DataZone. We offer customers a comprehensive inventory of an organization's assets, enrich this view through metadata, and provide data discovery, governance, trust, and query routing functionality. Catalogs are at the forefront of modern Analytics, acting as the bridge between the consumption layer and data services. They effectively enable Engines to query information and allow humans and AI to find semantic meaning in data.

Joining the AWS Catalog organization gives you the opportunity to:

• Work on a disruptive product that’s still in its early stages
• Solve challenging problems that will revolutionize database computing in the cloud
• Build a product that will leverage the scale of resources available in the cloud
• Work for a company that’s a recognized leader in the cloud computing space
• Be involved in the fast growing, big data space

We are looking for developers with expertise and passion for building large-scale data-intensive systems and distributed systems. In particular, we are looking for developers that want to work on the next generation big data systems that will transform data management on AWS and across the industry. Experience with large scale data analytics, big data platforms, highly available/fault tolerant systems, replicated data storage, and operating complex services running in the cloud are all pluses.

Responsibilities

• Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design
• Code and test complex system components
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Work with other teams to deliver and operate large scale, distributed services in the cloud
• Contribute to overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance
• Mentor other engineers, define our challenging technical culture, and help to build a fast-growing 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent

About the team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)

Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

USA, WA, Bellevue - $143,700.00 - $194,400.00 USD annually