SoftwareDevelopmentEngineer,ElastiCache

This is an opportunity to join one of AWS's most foundational and high-impact engineering teams — the In-Memory datastore team, part of Amazon ElastiCache. We build the next-generation, high-performance in-memory distributed data storage platform that powers some of the world's most demanding real-time applications. Our work sits at the intersection of distributed systems, database internals, and cloud-scale infrastructure, and it directly shapes how millions of AWS customers build low-latency, high-throughput applications. If you've ever found yourself deep in a conversation about CAP theorem, consistent hashing, Raft, Paxos, or gossip protocols — and you want to apply those ideas to real-world systems at massive scale — this team is where you belong. We are the engineers behind the acclaimed Amazon Dynamo paper, and we continue to push the boundaries of what NoSQL systems can do. We're not just building a cache; we're building a durable, highly available, and scalable in-memory database platform that bridges the best of RDBMS and NoSQL worlds. Key job responsibilities As a Software Development Engineer on this team, you will take on broad ownership across the full lifecycle of our platform. Your core responsibilities will include: - Designing and building the next-generation in-memory NoSQL database platform, enabling developers to create highly available, scalable, and high-performance applications at unprecedented scale. - Leading software development of large-scale distributed in-memory storage systems, primarily in Java and C/C++, leveraging open-source technologies such as Redis and Memcached alongside Amazon-proprietary technologies. - Developing and operating HTTP/REST services, asynchronous messaging systems, and event-driven architectures that form the backbone of our platform. - Building and improving real-time failure detection and auto-remediation systems capable of detecting node failures in large distributed clusters and initiating recovery within se