Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Do you like building a service from the ground up? Are you passionate about database engineering and query engines? Do you want to want to work closely with customers to revolutionize the way they analyze their data?

We are building a new query service, code named SPICE. It is a new database service that specializes in analytical queries. SPICE is currently powering Amazon QuickSight, an AWS business analytics service. As a multi-tenant serverless analytics backend, SPICE enables organizations to scale to hundreds of thousands of users without the need to manage infrastructure or provision capacity.

There are tremendous challenges in building a new service from scratch, and we are excited about it. We are building innovative technologies to solve hard problems in query planning and execution. We are looking for passionate engineers to join us in this journey.

You will work on both the architecture and deep algorithmic problems. You will build new components and write a lot of code. You will influence our technical direction and help prioritize our product roadmap by working closely with customers. You will partner with talented people and have plenty of opportunities to learn and lead.

In Amazon Web Services (AWS), our mission is to provide customers with best in class data services in the cloud to store, query and analyze the enormous data sets that their businesses generate. We build distributed storage, index and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage and use. These are exciting times in our space we are growing fast, but still at an early stage and working on ambitious new initiatives where an engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact.

Responsibilities:
Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture/design/working software solutions.
Code and test system components; participate in code and design reviews.
Demonstrate ownership of end-to-end code quality, system tests, functional tests, and integration.
Partner/Collaborate across teams/roles to deliver results.
Be responsible for overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance.
Mentor other engineers, define the technical culture, and help grow the team.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

4+ years of professional software development experience
3+ years of programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C including object-oriented design
2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
B.S. in Computer Science of a related field
3+ years of software development experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience in query planning and optimization
Experience in large-scale data analytics or data warehousing

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