Sr. Software Development Engineer Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

We are building a highly scalable, low latency, highly available, and cost effective storage platform with an integrated computation framework that powers Amazon retail and digital business.

Every single product page, offer, search result, order, and fulfillment at Amazon.com depends on our data platform systems. Our flagship product, SABLE, is at the core of Amazon.com retail infrastructure. On an average day it processes 60 million transactions per second from Amazon.com websites, Web Services, and internal Amazon systems. Multiple tier-1 services contributing to the growth of Amazon businesses use SABLE to store customer orders, product information, subscriptions, etc to serve to Amazon customers in real time. The performance and availability of SABLE is critical to the smooth running of Amazon business. We run one of the largest fleet in Amazon and SABLE is the highest throughput service in Amazon.

What is the challenge? Our mission is to build an integrated storage platform as a hosted service for all aspects of a business application development at Amazon, including multi-tiered storage options, authoritative (primary) storage, caching, pre-computation, on-demand computation, event notification, and search capability. Help us define the bleeding edge for elegant, super-scalable services at Amazon.com.

What are we looking for? An experienced Software Development Engineer with deep level of ownership and deep understanding of Quality and Testing methodology. Who operates independently, flexibly, and proactively. Who works collaboratively with Partner engineering teams during the whole product lifecycle (from design to live in production) earning their trust and respect. Who has a bias for action and delivering results. Who has excellent analytical and problem solving skills. Who sees the big picture and invents new solutions as well as simplifies existing ones, challenging themselves and others to relentlessly improve.

If you are interested in building large-scale distributed systems, have high quality bar, flair for innovation, and passion for solving some of the most challenging problems in the industry, we need you! You'll have an opportunity to work alongside and learn from the architects of Amazon's IT infrastructure, and to build the platform that drives the success of Amazon's businesses.