Software Development Engineer, Apache Iceberg Table Maintenance for S3 Tables and Glue Table Optimization

Are you passionate about delivering quality services and ready to apply your experience at massive scale Amazon S3 is the storage for internet and Amazon S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support and streamline storing tabular data at scale.

We are on the lookout for the curious those who think big and want to define the world of tomorrow. At Amazon you will grow into the high impact person you know youre ready to be. Every day will be filled with exciting new challenges developing new skills and achieving personal growth. How often can you say that your work changes the world At Amazon S3 Tables youll say it often. Join us and define tomorrow.

Our team is at the forefront of large-scale data management actively contributing to the Apache Iceberg project and helping shape the future of open table formats. Were focused on making data ingestion patterns from any source system reliable cost-effective and easy to implement while maintaining compatibility with popular analytics engines and ensuring optimal query performance through intelligent partitioning and indexing strategies.

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.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive design and bring innovative products and services to market.
- Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
- Work with other team members to investigate design approaches prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
- Take feature specifications and deliver working code that is maintainable and extendable.
- Build distributed storage index and query systems that are scalable fault-tolerant low cost and easy to manage/use.
- Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.



About the team
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- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience in professional non-internship software development
- Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience in development in the last 3 years

- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations

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