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Build exabyte-scale data processing engines with leading-edge technology. If you want to work with Spark, Java, Scala, Python, Flink, Beam, and AWS services (EMR, EKS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, SQS) - processing and transforming data across Amazon's data lakes - this is the role for you.
About the Team
The BDT team builds the platform that connects millions of businesses to hundreds of millions of customers across Amazon's global marketplaces. We enable native SQL, machine learning, and functional transformations using Apache Spark - executing batch, ML, and streaming workloads over schema'd data in S3, and writing curated datasets to front-end caches (DynamoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch). Our platform lets customers transition seamlessly between Streaming, Batch, Cache, and Analytics to meet demand at Amazon scale.
We are a team that relentlessly innovates, keeps customers at the center, and delivers results with velocity while continuously raising the bar.
What We're Looking For
• Background in distributed systems development
• Solid technical ability and passion for building at scale
• Good communication skills and a bias for action
Motivation to deliver results in a fast-paced, high-impact environment
Key job responsibilities
• Design & Delivery - Lead the design and delivery of major features and re-architecture of significant technology components
• Quality & Operational Excellence - Ensure software maintains a high bar for quality, security, architecture, and operational excellence
• Problem Solving - Identify root causes of widespread issues - including those limiting innovation and delivery velocity - across systems and components
• Technical Leadership - Make sound trade-offs between short-term technical/operational needs and long-term business impact; take calculated risks and mitigate long-term risk
• Collaboration & Influence - Engage with and influence team members, external teams, partners, and leadership
• Mentorship - Mentor less experienced engineers, provide career development opportunities, and deliver constructive feedback to peers
Communication - Effectively communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, and business rationale across the organization
A day in the life
The challenges you'll solve at Amazon are big - influencing millions of customers, sellers, and products worldwide. We're looking for individuals passionate about building new products, features, and services from scratch while navigating ambiguity at a pace where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years.
Your day includes daily standups, driving your goals and deliverables, contributing to innovation and operational excellence, rotating on-call every 8-10 weeks, and continuously improving the customer experience.
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
- 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
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