Software Development Engineer, AWS ElastiCache, AWS ElastiCache

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 143,700 - 194,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on payments

Restricted stock units (RSUs)

Health insurance

Job summary

Amazon Development Center is seeking a Software Development Engineer for AWS ElastiCache to build large-scale, distributed in-memory databases with sub-millisecond latency. You will work on data plane performance, low-level optimizations, and high availability while leveraging open-source tech like Redis and Memcached.

You’ll develop significant product portions and mentor engineers, collaborating with business and tech partners to deliver reliable systems and operate at scale.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience for systems.
• Experience programming in at least one language.

Responsibilities

• Develop significant portions of the product and mentor other engineers.
• Enable a quality product and set groundwork for future phases.
• Commit to teamwork, hustle, and strong communication with business and technical partners.
• Apply exceptional technical expertise and strong fundamentals of Computer Science to build reliable, scalable, high-performance services.
• Enjoy working on complex system software, be customer-centric, and build software that meets operational goals.

Skills

Distributed systems

Code optimization

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Software Development Engineer, AWS ElastiCache

Job ID: 10438905 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Overview

Are you passionate about building a large-scale, distributed, highly available, and reliable in-memory database? We are building in-memory services powered by open-source and optimized for sub-millisecond latency at scale. As a Software Engineer in our NoSQL and in-memory database team, you will develop large-scale, distributed in-memory databases with sub-millisecond latency. You will leverage open-source technologies like Redis, Memcached, and Amazon proprietary technologies, focusing on data plane performance, low-level optimizations, asynchronous messaging, event-based technologies, real-time failure detection, horizontal and vertical scaling, auto-remediation, high availability, fault tolerance, storage, snapshotting, and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Develop significant portions of the product and mentor other engineers.
• Enable a quality product and set groundwork for future phases.
• Commit to teamwork, hustle, and strong communication with business and technical partners.
• Apply exceptional technical expertise and strong fundamentals of Computer Science to build reliable, scalable, high-performance services.
• Enjoy working on complex system software, be customer-centric, and build software that meets operational goals.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems (design patterns, reliability, and scaling).
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Salary

Base salary range: $143,700 – $194,400 USD annually (Seattle, WA).

Benefits

Amazon package includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Benefits include health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription), Basic Life & AD&D insurance, 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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.