Software Development Engineer IO

Leading brands like Epic Games Lyft AirBnB and Vanguard use Amazon Kinesis Data Streams as their foundation for realtime streaming data. With Amazon Kinesis Data Streams customers process gigabytes per second of realtime user engagement data for gaming and marketing analytics build realtime IoT sensor data analytics solutions analyze millions of financial transactions in real time perform network intrusion detection for security analytics transform and load logs into data lakes and much more. These customers choose Kinesis Data Streams because it is a fullymanaged service that makes realtime streaming data ingestion and processing reliable easy and at low cost. Tens of thousands of customers worldwide ranging from large commercial enterprises federal and state governments regulated industries like healthcare and finance to small startups have moved from batch to streaming with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and we are just getting started.

We are currently looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate is excited about the incredible opportunity that cloud computing represents and is passionate about delivering high quality services in a hypergrowth environment where priorities can shift fast. As a member of our team youll work alongside outstanding engineers and leaders refine product requirements with product and program managers define architecture and be a leader in the implementation and launch of software.

All team members actively participate in product definition technical architecture review iterative development code review and operations. Along with this youll have the opportunity to interact with enterprise customers to ensure their needs are met clear professional communication with teammates and customers is an important part of the job.

Cloud computing represents a fundamental shift in how businesses think about managing their information needs. While this emerging area of computing has seen tremendous growth over the past few years we are still in the early stages of realizing its full potential. Were looking for a smart passionate and detail oriented engineer to help us continue to define this exciting new technology.

Key job responsibilities
You solve difficult problems applying appropriate technologies and best practices.
You work with your team to invent design and build software that is stable and performant.
You are proficient in a broad range of design approaches and know when it is appropriate to use them (and when it is not). Your solutions are pragmatic.
You consider the legacy of the code you produce and write code that an SDE unfamiliar with the system can understand.
You limit the use of shortterm workarounds. You do things with the proper level of complexity the first time (or at least minimize incidental complexity).
You create flexible software without overengineering. You make appropriate tradeoffs reuse where possible and are judicious about introducing dependencies.
You are efficient with resource usage (e.g. system hardware database memory/CPU etc.
You work on project ideas with customers stakeholders and peers

A day in the life
ur team works together to provide work/life balance for all team members. We recognize that the circumstances of our team members vary and we balance work across the team so that were all able to maintain high standards on behalf of our customers while at the same time allowing for rich and happy personal lives. We pride ourselves on a high level of ownership in the work we do. We maintain a regular oncall rotation across our teams with engineers and managers all taking part to resolve the inevitable issues that arise. We work hard to minimize getting paged in the middle of the night as we recognize that a wellrested employee is a productive employee.

3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship 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
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.