Software Development Engineer, Amazon

- 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
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

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Business Data Technologies (BDT) makes it easier for teams across Amazon to produce, store, catalog, secure, move, and analyze data at massive scale. Our managed solutions combine standard AWS tooling, open-source products, and custom services to free teams from worrying about the complexities of operating at Amazon scale. This lets Amazon Engineers to move beyond the engineering and operational burden associated with managing and scaling platforms, and instead focus on scaling the value they can glean from their data, both for their customers and their teams.

We own the one of the biggest (largest) data lakes for Amazon where 1000’s of Amazon teams can search, share, and store EB (Exabytes) of data in a secure and seamless way; using our solutions, teams around the world can schedule/process millions of workloads on a daily basis. We provide enterprise solutions that focus on compliance, security, integrity, and cost efficiency of operating and managing EBs of Amazon data.

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Key job responsibilities
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As a Software Development Engineer, you will:

* Lead architecture of large initiatives in scaling, security and availability.
* Design, develop and support a world-class system that serves diverse user profiles and teams.
* Produce bullet-proof code that is robust, efficient and maintainable; our primary languages are Java and Python.
* Continually challenge what exists and explore what should be changed to best meet evolving business and market needs.
* Possess expert knowledge in large scale distributed system design and engineering best practices
* Participate in setting a vision and objectives in alignment with business and market needs.
* Understand the compliance requirements for data storage and raise the bar of Privacy for Amazon.
* Drive and work on algorithm and architecture design, execute and deliver results.
* Invent the future, instead of just being a bystander.
* Join a great group of motivated, top-notch, people and work with them to solve interesting and useful problems in a fun, collaborative environment.

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About the team
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BDT Privacy team strives to raise the bar on data privacy through self-service solutions aligned based on CDO Privacy's guidelines.
The BDT Privacy team is responsible for accelerating Amazon's data-driven business by enabling the next generation of analytics and machine learning technologies at scale, while raising the bar on global customer trust. We provide foundational capabilities to meet regulatory and compliance needs related to data deletion, data retention, and data retrieval for DSAR (Data Subject Access Requests) across Amazon's Andes datasets. Our team processes millions of on-demand data deletion requests, deletes terabytes of data using programmatic deletion, and fulfills thousands of DSAR requests each month. We automate data privacy, compliance, and security requirements, favoring reusable solutions and self-service tools to create a virtuous cycle of operational excellence, efficiency, and continuous improvement.