Software Development Engineer, AWS Glue

AWS Glue is the backbone of data integration for tens of thousands of AWS customers from fast-growing startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. As a Software Development Engineer on the AWS Glue team you wont just write code: youll shape how the worlds most data-driven organizations move transform and make sense of their data at massive scale.

This is a rare opportunity to work on a fully managed serverless data integration service that processes petabytes of data every day. If youre excited by distributed systems large-scale data pipelines and building infrastructure that developers and data engineers rely on globally this is your team.
Your code will run inside pipelines that power critical business decisions for thousands of customers simultaneously. Youll tackle challenges in distributed query execution fault-tolerant pipeline orchestration and low-latency data processing problems that dont have easy answers.

Glues connectivity services team allows service teams like Athena QuickSight SageMaker Unified Studio and external customers like Adobe SAP and Workday to develop customer facing products that interact with third party data sources by giving them access to a large catalog of data source options without having to write or maintain new integrations. Our team provides a platform that any team in AWS can use to discover and use existing connectors. Once onboarded to the service integrating partners are provided with a consistent way to render the tile of data source options create or retrieve connections (with OAuth support) configure a connector (including VPC setup) and interact with underlying data sources.

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.
Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
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.


A day in the life
The challenges SDEs solve for at Amazon are big and influence millions of customers sellers and products around the world. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products features and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks not years.

About the team
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 hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

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- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 1 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 1 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

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

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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 WA Bellevue - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually