Frontend Engineer II, Amazon Data Firehose

Amazon; East Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking team at Amazon as a Frontend Engineer II, where you'll be at the forefront of building scalable, real-time data solutions. In this dynamic role, you'll collaborate with UX designers and product managers to shape user experiences while contributing to best practices in front-end development. With a focus on high-quality code and innovative solutions, you'll work on the Amazon Data Firehose service, impacting how billions of events are processed daily. This position offers an exciting opportunity to grow your skills in a diverse and inclusive environment, making a significant impact on AWS's cloud platform.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in agile software development.
• Proficient in front-end technologies including HTML, CSS, JS, and TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Define front end architectures and implement components for user experience.
• Collaborate with UX Designers and Product Managers for product goals.

Skills

Agile Software Development

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

TypeScript

Node.js

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Job description

Frontend Engineer II, Amazon Data Firehose

Job ID: 2837267 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

We are hiring engineers for the Amazon Firehose Team. The team owns all aspects of the Firehose service, including requirements, architecture, design & development, quality assurance, deployment, and operations. As an engineer in this team, you will learn the ins and outs of building a highly available, scalable, distributed, and secure system that uses all the modern cloud computing paradigms, techniques, and tools.

Solving problems at AWS scale
You will build and operate the next generation of a real-time data delivery and ingestion engine, Amazon Data Firehose, the defacto service to consume and deliver streaming data to numerous AWS and 3rd party destinations. This is a truly unique role where you’ll build a brand new service that requires partnering with multiple teams that cut across all of AWS and 3rd party vendors. It’s humbling and energizing to build, invent, influence, scale, and simplify software that numerous services depend on at AWS scale.

Key job responsibilities

1. Help define front end architectures, own and implement specific components, and help shape the overall user experience.
2. Contribute to defining best practices for front end development.
3. Collaborate with UX Designers and Product Managers.
4. Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement as a member of an autonomous team.
5. Write high-quality, efficient, testable code.
6. Mentor and support the growth of other developers.

A day in the life

Frontend Engineers at Amazon partner with the customers, stakeholders, product managers, and UX designers to define and execute the product goals. You challenge yourself and others to constantly come up with better solutions. You're a thought leader, but you don't just know how to solve the problem, you prove it by building the solution. Last but not least; you have a high bar for code quality and passion for design and architecture.

About the team

Amazon Data Firehose is powering many of the real-time technologies you use today, and we do this at a colossal scale. Worldwide, Firehose works with billions of events and petabytes of data each day in support of many thousands of customers running mission-critical real-time applications.

Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 4+ years of agile software development methodology experience.
- Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in building scalable web applications.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Posted: January 9, 2025 (Updated 6 minutes ago)