Senior Software Engineer - SDE II

Job description

About Fast Data Technologies Team :

The Fast Data Technologies (FDT) group builds multiple cloud based and distributed platform services which are at the core of Amazon’s consumer and digital businesses. Fast Data is the next step in the evolution of Big Data. Acting on data as it arrives in near real time and helping business unlock value is where Fast Data steps in .

FDT’s core NoSQL distributed storage platform processes more than 2.7 trillion transactions per day to serve various tier-1/mission-critical Amazon websites and internal Amazon systems. Thousands of services fueling the growth of Amazon businesses use FDT to store customer orders, catalog and product information, shopping cart, Kindle device information, and hundreds of other business critical data-sets.

We invite you to explore this awesome, career defining opportunity to be a part of Amazon……

Your Responsibilities Will Include

In addition to core storage, this group owns products like Tiered Storage, Secondary Indexing, Range Queries, Cloud Messenger, Sequence Generator and Data backfill.

Towards this vision, we are seeking strong and highly motivated engineers to disrupt and build next generation of distributed cloud computing products and take it to the next level.

Lead the design, and ultimately deploy successful services.

Ensure the quality of design of systems.

Defining new APIs that demonstrate full and complete understanding of service interdependencies and limitations.

Possess knowledge and is curious to learn more about performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.

Creating prototypes and proof-of-concepts for iterative development.

Work effectively with product development and engineering teams.

Actively mentoring junior team members.

Desired Skills and Experience

B.Tech or M.Tech in Computer Science

4+ years of software industry experience

Rich hands-on programming experience in Java/C++, using object-oriented design techniques and best practices

Working with customers and business to transform business requirements into functioning software

Experience in designing, building and maintaining real-time and large scale applications

Strong understanding of system and application performance characteristics.

Understanding of web services technologies such as SOAP and REST.

Possess strong verbal and written communication skills

In case your profile is short listed, you might be called for an in-person interview at our HYDERABAD office in the next few days. Hence, please send across your updated resume to [hidden] at the earliest.