Software Development Engineer, Music Events Platform Amazon
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

At Amazon Music, we are awash in data. The Events Platform team is looking for a world-class engineer to help Music teams in turning Amazon Music's huge data into information advantage. Our team is at the fore-front of the next generation of building real-time streaming platforms and self-service tools. We are bridging the gap between Amazon Music applications, customer-facing feature teams, engineers, and analysts by building simple to use, secure, and extensible tools & platforms using the state-of-the-art technologies. Our team's mission is to enable Amazon Music teams to use real-time data to identify and solve problems at scale. We are working on some of the hardest challenges in real time streaming, big data processing, and data analytics. Our platforms use technologies like AWS Kinesis, SQS/SNS, Cloudwatch, Apache Spark, S3, and various other internal Amazon tools. We are a team of rockstar and driven engineers. Join us, if you are one!

If you love the challenges that come with real-time streaming, data ingestion, processing, and analysis, and enjoy working with other engineers on data-driven business problems, then this role is for you. You are a talented, enthusiastic, and detail-oriented software developer who wants to work on projects that require innovative thinking, deep technical problem solving, and the opportunity to mentor other engineers. You value data-driven decision making and understand that the foundation of good decisions is good data. Most importantly, you are an expert in developing high throughput, highly scalable, and fault-tolerant services and have some some experience working with behavioral time series data.

In addition to your facility with programming and data, you'll need to provide coaching for other developers and write clear, professional documents accessible to both technical staff and business leaders. You are highly-motivated and thrive in an environment where problems are open-ended. You enjoy engaging in passionate discussions with smart people and letting the best ideas rise to the top. You see your mistakes as learning opportunities and continually look for ways to improve yourself, your team, and your products. You understand that not all solutions come easily and don't shy away from hard work to reach your goals. If this sounds like you, then come join our team!