Senior Software Development Engineer, Data Firehose; AWS

Overview

Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Data Firehose

Job  | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Come build the future of data streaming with the Amazon Data Firehose (ADF) team! Amazon Data Firehose is a fully managed service for capturing, transforming, and delivering streaming data to destinations like Amazon S3, S3 Tables, Redshift, Splunk, and Open Search Service. It automatically scales to handle incoming data, requires no application to be written, and can perform transformations before delivery, such as format conversion or dynamic partitioning.

Firehose works with billions of events and petabytes of data each day in support of many thousands of customers running mission-critical real-time applications.

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer for the Amazon Data Firehose Team. The team owns all aspects of the Firehose service, including requirements, architecture, design & development, quality assurance, deployment and operations. As an engineer in this team, you will learn the ins and outs of building a highly available, scalable, distributed and secure system that uses all the modern cloud computing paradigms, techniques and tools.

The ideal candidate has experience designing large-scale systems supporting millions of transactions per second, enjoys solving complex software problems, and possesses skills to innovate, design and solve problems ally you have an in-depth understanding of streaming data technologies like Amazon Kinesis or Apache Kafka, and experience with open-source data processing frameworks like Apache Spark, Apache Flink, or Apache Storm. Your responsibilities will include collaborating with other engineers to build a large scale AWS service, and work with senior leaders to define your team's roadmap, including identifying design and code changes needed in the underlying open source platforms.

• Collaborate with other engineers to build a large-scale AWS service.
• Work with senior leaders to define the team s roadmap, including identifying design and code changes needed in underlying open-source platforms.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and operate a highly available, scalable, and secure distributed system.
• Contribute to requirements, architecture, design, and quality assurance across the service lifecycle.

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

• 5+ 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
• 4+ years of distributed systems experience

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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. 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.

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USA, WA, Seattle -  -  USD annually

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