Software Development Engineer – Big Data, AWS Elastic MapReduce (EMR), EMR EKS

Amazon • East Palo Alto, CA

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About The Position

Want to change the world with Big Data and Analytics? Come join us on the Amazon
Web services (AWS) Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team!
EMR is a massively scaled distributed service that gives users fast and
predictable Big Data performance with clusters running Hadoop, Hive, Pig,
Impala, Spark, Presto, HBase and more, with the ability to effortlessly scale up
and down as needed. We run millions of customer clusters, enabling processing on
vast datasets.

We are developing innovative new features including the next-generation cluster
management system, real-time processing for big data and intuitive ways of
interacting with data, and we’re looking for top engineers to build them from
the ground up.
This is a hands-on position where you will be do everything from designing and
building extremely stable components and features for the savviest customers in
the business to help them get the best results.

You will have a chance to work with the open source community and contribute
significant portions its software to open source projects possibly including
Hadoop, Spark, Pig and Hbase. You need to not only be a top software developer
with excellent programming skills, an understanding of big data and
parallelization, and a stellar record of delivery but also excel at leadership
and customer obsession and have a real passion for massive-scale computing. If
you want to truly test your mettle against the hardest challenges in distributed
systems to build solutions for large scale problems in a wide variety of
domains, come join our group.

Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational
services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute
Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to
set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC
organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute,
Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps
services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized
security solutions for customers who require specialized security solutions for
their cloud services.

About the team
About AWS
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

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

• Translation of complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design
• Deliver systems and features with top-notch quality, on time
• Develop new technologies for monitoring production clusters
• Own the software development process end-to-end, including: working with engineers and product managers to develop requirements; designing, architecting, planning, implementing, and testing new systems and features; deploying, and operating the production EMR systems.

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