Software Development Engineer, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams & Firehose

We are hiring engineers for the Amazon Data Firehose Team. The team owns all aspects of the Firehose service including requirements architecture design & development quality assurance deployment and operations. As an engineer in this team you will learn the ins and outs of building a highly available scalable distributed and secure system that uses all the modern cloud computing paradigms techniques and tools.

The ideal candidate has experience designing large-scale systems supporting millions of transactions per second enjoys solving complex software problems and possesses skills to innovate design and solve problems at scale. Ideally you have an in-depth understanding of streaming data technologies like Amazon Kinesis or Apache Kafka and experience with open-source data processing frameworks like Apache Spark Apache Flink or Apache Storm. Your responsibilities will include collaborating with other engineers to build a large scale AWS service and work with senior leaders to define your teams roadmap including identifying design and code changes needed in the underlying open source platforms.

About the team
Utility Computing (UC)
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 customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

About the team
Amazon Data Firehose is a new fully managed service to load streaming data into AWS. It can capture and automatically load streaming data into different destinations enabling near real-time analytics with existing business intelligence tools and dashboards youre already using today. It is a fully managed service that automatically scales to match the throughput of your data and requires no ongoing administration. It can also batch compress and encrypt the data before loading it minimizing the amount of storage used at the destination and increasing security.

- 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
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA East Palo Alto - 165200.00 - 223600.00 USD annually