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Software Development Engineer, Elastic Block Store

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2 days ago
Vancouver, CanadaMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate distributed systems that transform, store, query, and export petabyte-scale telemetry data.
  • Evolve platform architecture and adopt languages and technologies to improve cost efficiency as usage grows.
  • Build secure, access-controlled programmatic and AI-ready interfaces for engineers and automated tools.
  • Improve operational quality through monitoring, alarming, data-quality validation, and automated recovery.
  • Partner with software engineers, data engineers, and product managers to develop reusable platform features.
  • Lead projects, participate in design brainstorms and reviews, review code, and support teams bringing new data onto the platform.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation, typically one week every eight weeks, and contribute to post-incident improvements.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • At least 2 years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
  • Preferred: at least 3 years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life, and AD&D insurance.
  • Registered Retirement Savings Plan and Deferred Profit Sharing Plan.
  • Paid time off and other health and well-being resources.
  • Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About Amazon

10,000+ employees

Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.

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