Software Development Engineer, AWS ElastiCache, AWS In memory databases

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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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, snapshoting, 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.

About the team
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred
qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates
to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path,
or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly
adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped
innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global
500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their
businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious.
Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us
to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences,
including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon
conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we
strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless
knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help
you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should
never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for
flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the
workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

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
• 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.

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 large-scale, distributed in-memory databases with sub-millisecond latency
• develop significant portions of the product
• serve as a mentor for other engineers in their areas of work
• enable a quality product and set the groundwork for success in the next phase of the product and beyond

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level