Senior Software Development Engineer AWS Transactional Services

Join us in building the next generation of distributed systems and database technologies to power AWS!

About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

About Journal
Distributed systems such as Kinesis S3 and DynamoDB need to durably and correctly commit customer writes at high scale and with high availability. For this many such systems use Journal. Journal is a fault tolerant high performance durable log service. It offers an elegant solution to a complex distributed systems problem. The challenges in building such a system stem with right durability availability resiliency performance (microseconds matter) and scale (we commit in excess of 100 million transactions per second) at low cost.

We are seeking technical leader to join the team that builds Journal Control Plane services and automations at scale. Your responsibilities will include:
* Designing and developing novel cutting edge highly available distributed systems software.

* Delivering quality features ontime and onbudget and executing against project plans and delivery commitments.

* Working with team members to manage daytoday development activities participating in designs design reviews code reviews and implementation.

* Mentoring other engineers.

* Maintaining current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology always being on the lookout for new technologies and working with the team to bring in new technologies.

Candidate must be able to work with a minimum of technical supervision and supplemental engineering support while responding efficiently to multiple program priorities. In addition the role involves analyzing the latest technologies and development trends establishing and implementing standard practices.

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll 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.

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Key job responsibilities
Basic qualifications

5 years of noninternship 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

Preferred qualifications

5 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

5 years of noninternship 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

5 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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