DESCRIPTION The Transactional Services organization builds some of the most foundational distributed systems that underpin and power many of the large AWS services. We build "Journal" a highly durable and highly available, append-only log which is a fundamental building block for most modern databases. Distributed systems such as Kinesis, S3, and DynamoDB need to durably and correctly commit customer writes at high scale and with high availability. For this, many such systems use Journal. Journal offers an elegant solution to a complex, distributed systems problem. The challenges in building such a system stem from the need to solve the consensus problem for durability, availability, performance (microseconds matter), and scale (we commit in excess of 100 million transactions per second). Journal is optimized at the lowest operating system and network levels to achieve this.
The role is part of a team with multiple senior and principal engineers and involves end-to-end ownership, from requirements to design, implementation, deployment and production support.
Key job responsibilities
* Invent, design, develop and own highly available, durable and scalable distributed systems and database technologies.
* Own the delivery of software development projects end-to-end.
* Work with other engineers to establish best practices in software development and operational processes.
* Collaborate with team members on day-to-day development activities, participate in designs, design reviews, code reviews, and implementation.
* Mentor other engineers.
* Keep up to date with new technologies used in the field and by our customers.
A day in the life
Transactional Services engineers are constantly challenged to think of unique and innovative solutions. The quality bar is high.
As an engineer here, you will work on the engineering problems in distributed systems at a massive scale and on multiple dimensions. You will exercise your intellectual curiosity, work with motivated teams of sharp individuals, and get guidance from senior and principal engineers.
This is a hands-on position in which you will own everything from end to end: requirements gathering, designs, design reviews, implementations, code reviews, incremental feature launches, operations, mentoring, and the driving of continuous improvement.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
