Software Engineering - Applications and Web Internship

Amazon - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Senior

Seattle, WA

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About the position

As a Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon DocumentDB, you will play a pivotal role in optimizing storage, indexing, and query performance for a fully-managed cloud database. This position involves taking ownership of critical components such as the query planner and executor, and index structures, while collaborating with industry experts to drive the long-term vision of the team. Your contributions will enhance current database solutions and shape the future of technology, focusing on making it easier for customers to store, query, and analyze data at scale.

Responsibilities

• Optimize storage, indexing, and query performance of Amazon DocumentDB.
• Develop a query planner and executor, and index structures.
• Collaborate with industry experts to drive the team's long-term vision.
• Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain innovative software solutions.
• Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.
• Create metrics, implement automation, and resolve software defects.
• Work cross-functionally to drive business decisions with technical input.

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• 4+ years of development experience in C/C++.
• Experience building databases, operating systems, or production distributed systems.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with cloud computing technologies.
• Familiarity with JSON document databases.
• Knowledge of distributed systems architecture.

Benefits

• Equity compensation options.
• Sign-on payments.
• Full range of medical benefits.
• Financial benefits.