Software Dev Engineer, Business Data Technologies

Amazons eCommerce Foundation (eCF) organization is responsible for the core components that drive the Amazon website and customer experience. Serving millions of customer page views and orders per day eCF builds for scale. As an organization within eCF the Business Data Technologies (BDT) group is no exception. We collect petabytes of data from thousands of data sources inside and outside Amazon including the Amazon catalog system inventory system customer order system page views on the website and Alexa systems. We also support Amazon subsidiaries such as IMDB and Audible. We provide interfaces for our internal customers to access and query the data hundreds of thousands of times per day using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Redshift Hive Spark and Oracle. We build scalable solutions that grow with the Amazon business.

BDT is growing and the data processing landscape is shifting. Our data is consumed by thousands of teams across Amazon including Research Scientists Machine Learning Specialists Business Analysts and Data Engineers. BDT team is building an enterprise-wide Data Lake leveraging AWS technologies. We enable teams at Amazon to produce analytical data in any form of storage (S3 DynamoDB Aurora etc.) and process that data using any type of compute environment such as EMR/Spark Redshift Athena and others via a common bus. We are developing innovative products including the next-generation of data catalog data discovery engine data transformation platform and more with state-of-the-art user experience. Were looking for top engineers to build them from the ground up.

This is a hands-on position where you will do everything from designing and building extremely scalable components and cutting-edge features to formulating strategy and direction for data processing at Amazon. You will also mentor junior engineers and work with the most sophisticated customers in the business to help them get the best results. You need to not only be a top software developer with excellent programming skills have an understanding of data processing and parallelization and a stellar record of delivery but also excel at leadership and customer obsession and have a real passion for massive-scale computing.

Your responsibilities will include:

Keeping your finger on the pulse of the constantly evolving and growing data processing and data lake field
Translation of complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design
Delivering systems and features with top-notch quality on time
Stay current on technical knowledge to keep pace with rapidly changing technology and work with the team in bringing new technologies on board

- 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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