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Software Development Engineer, AWS S3 Tables
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Software Development Engineer, AWS S3 Tables
Join Amazon S3 Tables: Redefine Cloud Data Storage at Scale
Are you passionate about delivering quality services and ready to apply your experience at massive scale? Amazon S3 Tables delivers the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, revolutionising how tabular data is stored and managed in large-scale environments.
About the Role
At Amazon, you’ll grow into the high-impact person you’ve always known you were. Every day, you’ll tackle exciting challenges, develop new skills, and achieve personal growth. Working with Amazon S3 Tables, you’ll actively shape the future of data management—tasks that directly contribute to changing the world.
Our team is dedicated to large-scale data management, actively contributing to the Apache Iceberg project and setting industry standards for table formats. We’re committed to making data ingestion patterns from any data source reliable, cost-effective, and easy to implement, while ensuring seamless compatibility with popular analytics engines and delivering optimal query performance through advanced partitioning and indexing solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
- Design and build scalable distributed computing systems that drive fundamental industry changes.
- Prototype new technologies and assess technical feasibility, working alongside team members.
- Translate feature specifications into maintainable, scalable, and extendable code.
- Develop scalable, fault-tolerant, cost-efficient distributed storage, indexing, and query systems that are simple to manage and use.
- Address broadly defined problems with innovative and practical solutions.
- Operate in a results-driven, agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
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About the Team
AWS values diverse experiences, encouraging candidates from all career backgrounds—whether traditional or alternative. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive cloud platform, innovation is embedded in everything we do. This is why businesses from startups to Fortune 500 companies rely on AWS for unmatched cloud products and services.
Inclusive Team Culture
Our emerging, inquisitive team culture thrives on curiosity and diverse perspectives. Affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion, while initiatives like Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences reinforce our commitment to embracing uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
AWS continuously raises its performance bar to become Earth’s Best Employer. Here, you’ll have access to limitless knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and career development resources to elevate your professional growth.
Work/Life Balance
We champion work-life harmony, ensuring professional success doesn’t come at the expense of personal well-being. Our emphasis on flexibility and support allows us to achieve even the most challenging workplace and personal goals—all from the cloud.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Professional software development experience (non-internship).
- Proficiency in at least one modern language (e.g., Java, C++, C#) with a strong grasp of object-oriented design.
- Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices, including:
- Coding standards
- Software architectures
- Code reviews
- Source control management
- Continuous deployment
- Testing & operational excellence
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Preferred Qualifications:
- A Bachelor's degree in computer science (or equivalent qualification).
- Experience throughout the entire software development life cycle, including:
- Coding standards
- Code reviews
- Source control management
- Build processes
- Testing & operations
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