Software Development Engineer, Open Data Analytics Engines (AWS

Software Development Engineer, Open Data Analytics Engines

Job :  | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Amazon Analytics offers fully managed cloud data warehouse and data lake capabilities. Tens of thousands of enterprise customers rely on Analytics services to process exabytes of data every day, powering the business-critical decisions that drive their organizations forward. To stay ahead in such a high-stakes environment, we continuously reinvent ourselves on behalf of customers — and we're looking for innovative engineers to help shape the future of Analytics.
We push the boundaries of what's possible by contributing to and leveraging the latest technologies and relentlessly optimizing every layer of the stack within the query engine from query compilation, planning, optimization and execution. If a query can run faster, we find the way.
The Open Data Analytics Engines (ODAE) Runtime Team owns the massively parallel query execution engine at the heart of the Analytics data plane. Our singular obsession: performance. We are building the world's fastest query engine — one that powers multiple AWS services and processes data at scale.
An ideal candidate would have a background (or deep interest) in distributed systems, databases, or query engines such as Apache Spark and understands how queries are optimized, planned, and executed end-to-end.
Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll 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.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will build systems that benefit Analytics customers across the world. You will take significant ownership on the overall product vision by defining new features and architecture. You will distill complex and ambiguous requirements, converting them into meaningful projects that provide immense customer value. You will own and code end-to-end deliverables from design, development, deployment, monitoring, and operations.

You will lead engineers on substantial projects and help develop a flourishing team through active mentoring and hiring.
This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast-growing business and help shape the technology powering analytical workloads for Fortune 500 companies, startups, and everything in between. You will bring deep technical, algorithmic and coding expertise with the ability to work within a fast moving and collaborative environment in the industry leading cloud company to deliver a broad business impact.

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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