Software Development Engineer, AWS ElastiCache, AWS ElastiCache
About The Position
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 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.
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
- Commitment to teamwork, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners)
- Exceptional technical expertise
- Sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science
- Practical experience building large-scale distributed systems
- Enjoy working on complex system software
- Customer-centric
- Feels strongly about building good software as well as making that software achieve its operational goals
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
Responsibilities
- Develop significant portions of the product
- Serve as a mentor for other engineers in their areas of work
- Work to enable a quality product and set the groundwork for success in the next phase of the product and beyond
- Develop large-scale, distributed in-memory databases with sub-millisecond latency
- Leverage open source technologies like Redis, Memcached, and Amazon proprietary technologies
- 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
- Disaster recovery
Benefits
- 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
- parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
