Software Development Engineer, AWS Transactional Services
About The Position
The Transactional Services team builds some of the most foundational distributed systems that underpin and power many large AWS services. We build and own a high performance, highly available replicated log service used by a range of AWS services as a commit log and for streaming data. We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to own and build a major part of our control plane. Your work will be critical to the scalability and availability of the service. Working on a foundational service, your work can have a large, positive impact for AWS customers. The role involves end-to-end ownership, from requirements to design, implementation, deployment and ongoing production support. You will have the opportunity to work with senior and principal software engineers on a daily basis.
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
- Designing, developing, and operating highly available and scalable control plane services that manage the lifecycle, placement, and metadata of one of AWS's largest distributed systems — handling hundreds of millions of operations per second.
- Improving service quality, operational excellence, and reliability — building monitoring, automation, and operational tooling that prevents customer impact.
- Providing input to project plans and delivery commitments and developing quality features in line with those commitments.
- Working with a talented team, gaining and sharing knowledge through code reviews and design reviews.
- Mentoring other engineers.
- Driving technology, product and process improvements.
Benefits
- competitive salary
- great benefits
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance)
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
- Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
- paid time off
- other resources to improve health and well-being
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
