Software Development Engineer, AWS Transactional Services

The Transactional Services team builds some of the most foundational distributed systems that underpin and power many large AWS services. We build and own a high performance highly available replicated log service used by a range of AWS services as a commit log and for streaming data.

We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to own and a build major part for our control plane. Your work will be critical to the scalability and availability of the service. Working on a foundational service your work can have a large positive impact for AWS customers.

Job responsibilities include:

* Designing developing and operating highly available and scalable control plane services that manage the lifecycle placement and metadata of one of AWSs largest distributed systems handling hundreds of millions of operations per second.
* Improving service quality operational excellence and reliability building monitoring automation and operational tooling that prevents customer impact.
* Providing input to project plans and delivery commitments and developing quality features in line with those commitments.
* Working with a talented team gaining and sharing knowledge through code reviews and design reviews.
* Mentoring other engineers.
* Driving technology product and process improvements.

The role involves end-to-end ownership from requirements to design implementation deployment and ongoing production support. You will have the opportunity to work with senior and principal software engineers on a daily basis.

In joining our team youll enjoy a competitive salary great benefits and a creative and comfortable work environment. Our team has multiple opportunities for growth on technical and leadership frontiers with variety of project types on our roadmap to fit your personal career growth path.

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Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

This position involves on-call responsibilities typically for one week every two months. We dont like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged we work together to resolve the root cause so that we dont get paged for the same issue twice.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.






- 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

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription basic life & AD&D insurance) Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) paid time off and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN BC Vancouver - 114800.00 - 191800.00 CAD annually

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Employment Type : Full-Time
Department / Functional Area: Software Development
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1