Business Data Tech SDE-2 Datashield

Amazons eCommerce Foundation (eCF) organization is responsible for the core components that drive the Amazon website and customer experience. Serving millions of customer page views and orders per day eCF builds for scale. As an organization within eCF the Business Data Technologies (BDT) group is no exception. We collect petabytes of data from thousands of data sources inside and outside Amazon including the Amazon catalog system inventory system customer order system page views on the website. We provide interfaces for our internal customers to access and query the data hundreds of thousands of times per day using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Redshift Hive Spark. We build scalable solutions that grow with the Amazon business. BDT team is building an enterprisewide Big Data Marketplace leveraging AWS technologies. We work closely with AWS teams like EMR/Spark Redshift Athena S3 and others. We are developing innovative products including the nextgeneration of data catalog data discovery engine data transformation platform and more with stateoftheart user experience. Were looking for top engineers to build them from the ground up.

This is a handson position where you will do everything from designing & building extremely scalable components to formulating strategy and direction for Big Data at Amazon. You will also mentor junior engineers and work with the most sophisticated customers in the business to help them get the best results. You need to not only be a top software developer with excellent programming skills have an understanding of big data and parallelization and a stellar record of delivery but also excel at leadership customer obsession and have a real passion for massivescale computing.

Come help us build for the future of Data!


Key job responsibilities
An SDEII in the Datashield team would lead product and tech initiatives within the team and beyond by partnering with internal and external stakeholders and teams. They would need to come up with technical strategies and design for complex customer problems by leveraging out of box solutions to enable faster roll outs. They will deliver working software systems consisting of multiple features spanning the full software lifecycle including design implementation testing deployment and maintenance strategy. The problems they need to solve do not start with a defined technology strategy and may have conflicting constraints. As technology lead in the team they will review other SDEs work to ensure it fits into the bigger picture and is well designed extensible performant and secure.

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
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
1 years of building largescale machinelearning infrastructure for online recommendation ads ranking personalization or search experience
Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle including coding standards software architectures code reviews source control management continuous deployments testing and operational excellence

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