Software Development Engineer , Open Data Analytics Fundamentals Team

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 their cloud services.

Amazon Web Services Open Data Analytics (ODA) organization is looking for exceptional engineers to help in our mission to provide the world s best cloud Big Data processing platform and services such as EMR and Athena.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) is the industry-leading cloud big data platform for petabyte-scale data processing, interactive analytics, and machine learning using open-source frameworks such as Apache Spark, Trino, Hadoop, Hive, and HBase. Amazon Athena is a serverless query service that simplifies analyzing data directly in Amazon S3 using standard SQL.

The ODA Fundamentals team is responsible for integrating and packaging the latest features from the ODA organization and delivering robust, thoroughly tested analytics products to our customers. The team plays a pivotal role in shaping the strategic direction of ODA services and executing the product release process to meet business and customer needs.

As part of our team, you will design and build web services and tools that manage entire lifecycle of ODA releases from creation to deployment with high quality and on schedule. You will build and improve benchmarking frameworks that underpin AWS Analytics optimization efforts. Your features will automatically schedule, analyze, and evaluate the differences between experimental, regression, and production workloads and respective baselines. You will get to collaborate with some of the best and brightest minds in the industry and work on industry leading software and systems. You will be part of a fast-paced and growing team and one of the most innovative technology companies - but most of all, you will get the satisfaction of making products that millions use everyday to great effect!


Key job responsibilities
Analyze and improve availability, efficiency, capacity, scalability, security and performance of our services.
Build, maintain and continuously improve infrastructure for a multi-site development team
Working on complex problems in distributed systems and query engines.
Translation of complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design.
Deliver systems and features with top-notch quality, on time.
Own the end-to-end Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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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 - 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