Software Development Engineer, AWS Glue

About the Team

The AWS Data Integration group provides rapidly growing, industry-acclaimed cloud services spanning big data platforms, data analytics, and operational databases. We are at the forefront of innovation, producing world-class services such as EMR, Redshift, and RDS Aurora.

Glue is a serverless platform for Data Analytics, focusing on ETL and empowering Data Analysts and Engineers. Our goal is to redefine how data analytics is done, making it easy and fast for customers to query their data. We are currently building the next generation of data replication services to enable customers to seamlessly replicate SaaS application data with Transactional Data Lakes and Data Warehouses.

We are scaling backend infrastructure to enable super-low latencies for interactive jobs and massive scale like never seen before. The team owns both Product and Backend, offering a unique end-to-end experience.

About the Role

You will join a fast-paced environment that energizes you to be at your best. This role is for someone passionate about building large-scale distributed systems who thrives in a culture of ownership, delivery, and bias for action. You will translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture, design, and extensible code, while technically leading a team of smart engineers on complex projects.

As an advocate of industry best practices, you will produce reliable, fault-tolerant, and dependable code. You will own system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance, while collaborating and influencing other teams to deliver and operate large-scale, distributed services in the cloud. Additionally, you will mentor other engineers, helping to define our challenging technical culture and build a fast-growing team.

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, which is why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

We foster an inclusive team culture where it is in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups empower us to be proud of our differences, with ongoing events and learning experiences inspiring us to embrace our uniqueness. We are continuously raising our performance bar to become Earth's Best Employer, providing endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and career-advancing resources to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

We value work-life harmony, striving for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there is nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

Equal Opportunity

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.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, please visit the AWS accommodations page for more information.