Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Technology

SoftwareDevelopmentEngineerIII,AWSElastiCache

$100–227k Seattle, Washington, United States FULL TIME
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Software Development Engineer III, AWS ElastiCache at Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.. Skills: Distributed systems, In-memory databases, NoSQL. Develop in-memory services. Develop distributed in-memory databases”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years software development experience, 5+ years programming experience, 5+ years design/architecture experience, Experience as a mentor, Experience as a tech lead, Experience leading engineering team

Nice to Have

5+ years full SDLC experience, Bachelor's degree in computer science

What You'll Do.

Develop in-memory services

Develop distributed in-memory databases

Leverage open source technologies

Perform low level optimizations

Implement asynchronous messaging

Implement event-based technologies

Build real-time failure detection system

Implement horizontal scaling

Implement vertical scaling

Implement auto-remediation

Build high availability systems

Build fault tolerance systems

Develop storage technologies

Implement snapshooting

Implement disaster recovery

Enable a quality product

Set groundwork for success

Solve challenging technical problems

Design software solutions

Implement software solutions

Test software solutions

Deploy software solutions

Maintain software solutions

Build high-quality products

Build highly available products

Build always-on products

Research implementations

Resolve root cause of defects

Build high-impact solutions

Participate in design discussions

Participate in code review

Communicate with stakeholders

Work cross-functionally

Drive business decisions

Work in development environment

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Diverse teams; Internal stakeholders; External stakeholders

Communication Scope

Communication skills

Full Job Description

Are you passionate about building a large-scale, distributed, highly available, and reliable in-memory database? We are building in-memory services, powered by open-source, and optimized for sub millisecond latency at scale. Come and join us to define the future of NoSQL at AWS. ** As a Sr Software Engineer in our NoSQL and in-memory database team, you will develop large-scale, distributed in-memory databases with sub-millisecond latency. You will leverage open source technologies like Redis, Memcached, and Amazon proprietary technologies. This includes data plane extremely fast and high throughput development, low level optimizations, asynchronous messaging, event-based technologies, real-time failure detection system, horizontal and vertical scaling, auto-remediation, high availability, fault tolerance, storage technologies, snapshooting, and disaster recovery. - In this role, you will develop significant portions of the product and serve as a mentor for other engineers in their areas of work. - You will work to enable a quality product and set the groundwork for success in the next phase of the product and beyond. - A commitment to teamwork, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. - Creating a reliable, scalable, and high-performance service requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. - You should be someone who enjoys working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about building good software as well as making that software achieve its operational goals. Come work with the folks who are not only building a highly-available and scalable in-memory distributed service but also influencing the direction of NoSQL systems throughout the industry. AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s

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