Amazon Web Services (AWS) · 8 hours ago
Sr. Software Engineer, Open Data Analytics - Engines
Arlington, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$151K/yr - $262K/yr
5+ years expAmazon Web Services (AWS) is a leading cloud platform known for its innovative services. The role involves owning system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance for analytics engines, while mentoring a team and collaborating with various teams to deliver large-scale distributed services in the cloud.
Agentic AIConsultingDevOpsInformation TechnologySoftwareWeb Development
Responsibilities
Own system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance
Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture, design and extensible code
Participate in architecture, design and code reviews to maintain our high development standards
Technically lead and mentor a team of smart engineers on distributed systems and query engines, defining our challenging technical culture, and helping to build a fast-growing team
Be an advocate of industry best-practices to produce reliable, fault-tolerant and dependable code
Code and test complex system modules; develop and leverage frameworks to be effective and efficient
Collaborate and influence other teams to deliver and operate large scale, distributed services in the cloud
Qualification
Required
5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Very strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, data structures, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Strong proficiency in developing objected-oriented software, with deep experience in one or more relevant languages (Java, C, C++, C#)
Preferred
5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Experience in query processing, query engines, and/or query optimization
Thorough understanding of parallel algorithms, concurrency, asynchronous architectures
Experience designing and building highly-scaled distributed systems and web services
Experience working in an agile software development organization
Proficiency in high-performance, multi-threaded programming
Knowledge of and contribution to Hadoop ecosystem
Experience with distributed systems architecture
Proven ability to effectively drive cross-team solutions that may have complex dependencies
Masters in Computer Science with emphasis on distributed systems and Big Data architectures is a plus
Benefits
A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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BIRD Foundation
2025-01-22Grant
Leadership Team
Matt Garman
Chief Executive Officer
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