Software Development Engineer, AWS Glue

AWS Data Integration group provides rapidly growing, industry acclaimed cloud services in areas of big data platforms to data analytics to operational databases. The group is at the forefront of innovation in these areas producing world-class cloud services such as EMR to Redshift to RDS Aurora and many more.

Glue is a serverless platform for Data Analytics, with a focus on ETL and Data Analyst/Engineer experience. Our goal is to redefine how Data Analytics is done and make it easy and fast for customers to query their data.

We are building the next generation data replication service to enable customers to seamlessly replicate SaaS application data with Transactional Data Lakes and Data Warehouses. We are also scaling the backend infrastructure to enable super-low latencies for interactive jobs and a massive scale like never seen before. The teams owns both Product & Backend and it's a unique experience.

Key job responsibilities

About you:

- Passionate in building large scale distributed systems

- Thrive in culture of ownership, delivery and bias for action

- Fast pace environment energizes you to be at your best

- Innovate and invent in agile and collaborative environment

- Curious and eager to learn to expect more of you and others

Responsibilities:

- Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture, design and extensible code

- Technically lead a team of smart engineers on complex projects

- Be an advocate of industry best-practices to produce reliable, fault-torrent and dependable code

- Code and test complex system modules; develop and leverage frameworks to be effective and efficient

- Participate in architecture, design and code reviews to maintain our high development standards

- Own system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance

- Collaborate and influence other teams to deliver and operate large scale, distributed services in the cloud

- Mentor other engineers, defining our challenging technical culture, and helping to build a fast-growing team

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, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 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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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

USA, WA, Bellevue - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually