Development Engineer Jobs in East Palo Alto, CA

We are building the next generation serverless analytics platform that executes Apace Spark, Python and other runtime engines. We are scaling the backend infrastructure to enable super-low latencies for workloads at a massive scale like never seen before. The teams owns both the product & backend and it's a unique experience.

Top reasons to join our team:

• Be part of big data revolution in cloud
• Be catalyst to deliver a truly disruptive product(s) that are growing rapidly
• Learn how to build & operate distributed systems at massive scale
• Solve unique and first-order problems in areas of Big Data, serverless computing, Distributed Systems and Machine Learning
• You get to define, build, own, and run a service in high growth environment
• Influence and build products that will leverage scale of resources to run serverless big data workloads

Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities:

• Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture, design and extensible code
• Technically lead a team of smart engineers on complex projects
• Be an advocate of industry best-practices to produce reliable, fault-torrent and dependable code
• Code and test complex system modules; develop and leverage frameworks to be effective and efficient
• Participate in architecture, design and code reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Own system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance
• Collaborate and influence other teams to deliver and operate large scale, distributed services in the cloud
• Mentor other engineers, defining our challenging technical culture, and helping to build a fast-growing team

About the team
About AWS
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.