Software Engineer II: Scalable Distributed Databases

The Transactional Services organization builds foundational distributed systems that power the largest AWS services. The organization specializes in building high performance, highly available data systems that provide strong transactional guarantees at very high scale. We have an exciting multi-year roadmap with huge opportunities to own and solve novel technical challenges in distributed systems.

The role is part of a team with multiple senior and principal engineers and involves end‑to‑end ownership, from requirements to design, implementation, deployment and production support. You will build and own highly available, low‑latency systems that scale to serve over 100 million operations per second.

• Invent, design, and develop highly available and scalable distributed systems and database technologies.
• Own the delivery of software development projects end-to-end.
• Work with other engineers to establish best practices in software development and operational processes.
• Collaborate with team members on day-to-day development activities, participate in designs, design reviews, code reviews, and implementation.
• Mentor other engineers.
• Keep up to date with new technologies used in the field and by our customers.

• 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
• 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
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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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 .

Base salary range:  -  USD annually.

Location:

USA, WA, Seattle

Company:
Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

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