Description The BDT/eCF team is looking for a passionate and innovative engineer with a solid technical background to join the engineering team. Amazon’s technology connects millions of businesses of all sizes to hundreds of millions of Customers within the Amazon.com marketplaces worldwide. Our platform, at Amazon-scale, enables customers to process native SQL, machine learning (ML), and other functional transformations using Apache Spark, Iceberg, Scala, Java, Python, ML and related technologies to build unified compute for batch, streaming and ML processing - executing over schema’d data stored in S3, and to seamlessly write those curated datasets out to front end caches like Dynamo, Redis and ElasticSearch. Additionally, we enable these same sets of functional transforms over streaming data, enabling customers to transition seamlessly between Streaming, Batch, Cache and Analytics as needed to meet customer demand. The successful candidate will have a background in the development of distributed systems, a solid technical ability, good communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. Key job responsibilities If you are looking for building big data scalable engines with cutting edge technology and ML stack (with Spark, Iceberg, Java, Scala, Notebooks, Python, AWS - EMR, EKS, Kinesis, Dynamo, SQS and ML) processing & transforming data across data lakes at Exabytes scale at Amazon, then look no further. If you are looking to work with team of engineers that relentlessly innovate and push the envelope keeping customers at the center of its universe, continually insisting + raising the bar on their higher standards and delivering results with velocity, then this is the space and place to be in. Specifically, within the team the SDE is responsible for ensuring the team’s software maintains a high bar with respect to quality, security, architecture, and operational excellence. They take the lead on the design and delivery of major features and takes the lead on re-architecting significant technology components, while engaging with and influencing their team, external teams, partners, and leadership along the way. They are able to identify the root cause of widespread/pervasive issues including areas where it limits innovation and prevents accelerated delivery of projects, while navigating several systems and components they may or may not own. They are able to effectively communicate with their team and others, take calculated risks, anticipate and mitigate long-term risk, and make reasonable tradeoffs when situation demands it. mentoring less experienced engineers and providing career development opportunities, while providing constructive feedback to their peers. They understand the business impact of decisions and are able to exhibit good judgment while making trade-offs between the team’s short-term technology or operational needs and long-term business needs. Ultimately, they display strong technical acumen and ownership while providing strong leadership for the rest of the team. A day in the life This includes attending a daily standup, managing/contributing on your goals, projects, deliverables, innovations, operational excellence, taking turns every 12-16 weeks with operations, helping improving customer experience. About the team The scope of the primary product, Cradle, involves working at the architecture level, solving ambiguous problems, taking risks and failing fast, and orchestrating larger, more complex projects with partners both internal and external to the organization. Within the product teams, Triton is responsible for the core execution engine and related services/components. Team ownership includes Dryad Spark Engine (DSE), Spark connectors to Amazon data sources, Engine Release Label (EaRL) Service and Dryad Streaming for processing batch and streaming jobs. These services are imperative to the platform’s success. This drive and impact the key metrics such as job reliability, adherence to SLAs, accessibility and compatibility with Amazon data sources, and overall IMR spend for the platform. Cradle executes an average of 2MM jobs each day in clusters spread across >20k+ instances. Cradle jobs produce data consumed by data engineers, SDEs, subsequent data flows, and by S Team-level reporting processes. Basic Qualifications - 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience - 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience - · 3+ years of programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, Scala, including object-oriented design - · 4+ years of professional software development experience - 2+ years of experience as a mentor, tech lead OR leading an engineering team Preferred Qualifications - 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience - Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent - · Experience with Spark, Hadoop, REST, - · Experience with AWS tech such as Rredshift, EMR, Dynamo, Kinesis, EKS - · Experience working with large commercial relational database systems (Oracle, SQL Server). - · Experience developing Unit Tests using tools such as JUnit, NUnit, MSTest to verify your code quality. - · Experience in the building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers. - · Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations. - · Strong written and verbal communication skills preferred. 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