Software Development Engineer – Big Data, AWS Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Amazon Bedrock

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.

Want to change the world with Big Data and Analytics Come join us on the Amazon EMR team in Amazon Web Services!

Amazon EMR is a web service which enables customers to run massive clusters with distributed big data frameworks like Apache Hadoop Hive Tez Flink Spark Presto HBase Hudi and more with the ability to effortlessly scale up and down as needed. We run large number of customer clusters enabling processing on vast datasets.

We are developing innovative new features including our nextgeneration cluster management system improvements for realtime processing of big data ways to process more data faster and to enable customers to more easily interact with their data. Were looking for top engineers to build them from the ground up.

Here are sample features that we have delivered:
Launched Hudi on EMR: Support improved Apache HBase performance on Amazon S3 with persistent HFile tracking and Apache Hive ACID transactions on HDFS and Amazon S3: Support EC2 instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors with EMR: Support of High Availability of Applications on EMR: is a handson position where you will be do everything from designing and building extremely stable components and cuttingedge features for the savviest customers in the business to help them get the best results.

You will have a chance to work with the open source community and contribute significant portions its software to open source projects possibly including Apache HBase and Hudi. You need to not only be a top software developer with excellent programming skills an understanding of big data and parallelization and a stellar record of delivery but also excel at leadership and customer obsession and have a real passion for massivescale computing. If you want to truly test your mettle against the hardest challenges in distributed systems to build solutions for large scale problems in a wide variety of domains come join our group.

Your responsibilities will include:
Translation of complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design
Deliver systems and features with topnotch quality on time
Develop new technologies for monitoring production clusters
Own the software development process endtoend including: working with engineers and product managers to develop requirements; designing architecting planning implementing and testing new systems and features; deploying and operating the production EMR systems.

In joining our team you will get to work with a minimum of technical supervision while playing a variety of roles as needed to respond efficiently to multiple program priorities. You will get to collaborate with some of the best and brightest minds in the industry. Youll enjoy a competitive salary great benefits a creative and agile work environment and the exciting opportunity to be part of a fastpaced and growing team and one of the most innovative technology companies but most of all you will get the satisfaction of making products that millions use everyday to great effect!

For more information: AWS Big Data Blog: AWS EMR: AWS re:Invent 2020 Keynote Andy Jassy: job responsibilities
Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams projects and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. Youll bring a passion for innovation data search analytics and distributed systems. Youll also: Solve challenging technical problems often ones not solved before at every layer of the stack. Design implement test deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance durability cost and security. Build highquality highly available alwayson products. Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.

A day in the life
As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture youll implement automation features and other improvements and resolve the root cause of software defects. Youll also: Build highimpact solutions to deliver to our large customer base. Participate in design discussions code review and communicate with internal and external stakeholders. Work crossfunctionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input. Work in a startuplike development environment where youre always working on the most important stuff.

About the team
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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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