About the position
Amazon Analytics offers fully managed cloud data warehouse and data lake capabilities. Tens of thousands of enterprise customers use Analytics services to crunch through exabytes of data in the cloud to make business critical decisions every day. To stay ahead in such a mission critical setting, we must always re-invent ourselves for customers. We are always looking for the innovative engineers to help shape the future of Analytics. We are actively hiring a talented Software Engineer in the Query Processing team. Query processing is at the heart of Analytics data plane and is responsible for the massive parallel execution engine. As a Software Development Engineer, you will build systems that benefit Analytics customers across the world. You will take significant ownership on the overall product vision by defining new features and architecture. You will distill complex and ambiguous requirements, converting them into meaningful projects that provide immense customer value. You will own and code end-to-end deliverables from design, development, deployment, monitoring, and operations. You will lead engineers on substantial projects and help develop a flourishing team through active mentoring and hiring. This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast-growing business and help shape the technology powering analytical workloads for Fortune 500 companies, startups, and everything in between. You will bring deep technical, algorithmic and coding expertise with the ability to work within a fast moving and collaborative environment in the industry leading cloud company to deliver a broad business impact.
Responsibilities
- Build systems that benefit Analytics customers across the world.
- Take significant ownership on the overall product vision by defining new features and architecture.
- Distill complex and ambiguous requirements into meaningful projects that provide immense customer value.
- Own and code end-to-end deliverables from design, development, deployment, monitoring, and operations.
- Lead engineers on substantial projects and help develop a flourishing team through active mentoring and hiring.
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.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice-to-haves
- 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.
Benefits
- Medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
- Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
