Software Development Engineer, Open Data Analytics - Engines

About the role

Want to change the world with Big Data and Analytics? Come join us on the Amazon Analytics team in Amazon Web Services!

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.

Key job responsibilities

• Designing and building the next-generation technologies that will make Athena SQL the best environment to run analytic SQL at any scale
• Working on complex problems in distributed systems and query engines
• Translation of complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design
• Deliver systems and features with top-notch quality, on time
• Own the software development process end-to-end, including: working with engineers and product managers to develop requirements; designing, architecting, planning, implementing, and testing new systems and features; deploying, and operating the production Athena systems

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Qualifications

• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• 1+ years of contributing to new and current systems architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) experience
• 2+ 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
• 3+ years of experience with Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent OR 5+ years experience with Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, in: software development, including design, implementation, debugging, and support
• Very strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, data structures, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Strong proficiency in developing objected-oriented software, with deep experience in one or more relevant languages (Java, C, C++, C#)

Preferred qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Experience in query processing, query engines, and/or query optimization
• Thorough understanding of parallel algorithms, concurrency, asynchronous architectures
• Proficiency in high-performance, multi-threaded programming
• Knowledge of and contribution to Hadoop ecosystem