Amazon SQS is a massively distributed, scalable message queuing service. It runs on tens of thousands of machines worldwide, and processes over 100,000,000 requests per second while generating petabytes of logs per hour. It is a critical dependency of the Amazon Marketplace, many other AWS services, and hundreds of thousands of companies globally.

Because of its near-unlimited scalability, SQS is a foundational building block of many other cloud services. As such, SQS implements its own storage, load balancing, distributed caching and host lifecycle solutions. SQS teams deal with these topics in their daily work, and their decisions have impact that resonates throughout the industry. These decisions can have a financial impact of tens of millions of dollars to the service’s monthly budget.

As a Software Development Manager on the SQS Storage team, you will lead and define the technical direction and architecture of the component that stores, replicates, and serves messages back to customers in a secure, durable, highly available, and efficient way. Your understanding and influence will span other services across SQS, SNS and the rest of AWS, with some of our biggest achievements coming from improving the interactions in these complex distributed systems.