
Software Dev Engineer II, Business Data Technologies
Amazon · Posted Oct 13
E-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, and digital streaming services
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About the role
Amazon's eCommerce Foundation (eCF) organization builds the core components that drive the Amazon website and customer experience, and the Business Data Technologies (BDT) group within it processes petabytes of data from thousands of sources, including the catalog, inventory, order, page view, and Alexa systems, serving internal customers via AWS Redshift, EMR, Glue, LakeFormation and SageMaker. BDT is developing next-generation products such as a data catalog, data discovery engine, data transformation, and machine learning offerings on AWS. This hands-on SDE II role designs and builds highly scalable data processing components and distributed storage, index, and query systems, working with senior engineers and internal customers. The role involves designing, coding, reviewing, and debugging software in an agile, large-scale distributed computing environment.
What you will do
- Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to design, develop, and deliver innovative products and services.
- Design and build software components in a large distributed computing environment.
- Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
- Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems, with guidance from senior engineers.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
- Write clean, maintainable code and participate actively in code reviews.
- Troubleshoot and debug issues across the software stack.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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
- 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
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Amazon
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational technology conglomerate focusing on e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Recognized as one of the world's most valuable brands, it operates the largest internet retail marketplace globally alongside its prominent cloud platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Industry
- E-Commerce
- Company size
- 1576000+ employees
- Founded
- 1994-07-05
- Location
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $8M raised
- 2013-03-22Post Ipo Debt$200M
Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer
Founder and Executive Chair
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Matt Garman
CEO, Amazon Web Services
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
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