Own end-to-end delivery of features, from writing design documents and implementing production-quality code to driving operational readiness and deployment.
Mentor engineers through design and code reviews, pairing on hard problems, and helping them take on larger pieces of the system while raising the team's quality bar.
Build monitoring, alarming, and automation that keep our high-throughput services reliable, and participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot issues and drive root-cause resolution.
A day in the life
You will split your time between deep individual work like writing code, reviewing designs, and prototyping storage-layer changes, and collaborative sessions with your team and partner teams. Expect regular design reviews where you debate trade-offs around durability, latency, and cost, along with weekly operational reviews that keep the platform healthy. Some weeks you will be heads-down implementing a new compaction strategy; other weeks you will pair with a teammate to debug a subtle consistency issue in production.
About the team
Our team sits within the Transact organization and is responsible for the storage engine layer that underpins Amazon's OLTP platform that powers all Amazon Stores. We are a group of engineers who care deeply about correctness, performance, and operational rigor. We partner closely with AWS service teams, sharing innovations in both directions. Our focus over the coming years is scaling the next-generation storage layer to meet Amazon's growing transaction volume while improving efficiency and reducing costs, and we are looking for engineers who want to help shape that future.
Bachelor's degree
Experience in professional, non-internship software development
Experience in development in the last 3 years
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Experience in debugging, profiling, and implementing software engineering best practices in large-scale systems
Knowledge of databases, storage and big data concepts
Experience with performance and scalability testing
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