Software Engineer, Amazon
Data Platform
$99.5-200k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Posted today
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Posted today
$99.5-200k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent industry experience as a Software Engineer
- Familiarity with scalability, concurrency, API design, data modeling, and distributed systems fundamentals
Desirable
- Experience using Golang or Python
- Experience with distributed, highly available systems
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Contributions to open source
What the job involves
- The Data Platform team develops and operates the data platform that powers data systems and decision-making
- Our data pipeline receives over 200 billion events a day, and we forward live data to tens of systems as well as powering decisions at all levels of Twitch
- We provide tools to store, transform, move, and understand data
- As a software engineer on Data Platform, you will deliver the next generation of Twitch data technology
- Using Go and Python, you will build tools which are reliable and scale
- You’ll review and shape the work of your peers, and participate in a collaborative engineering team
- Develop new capabilities in our data warehouses and pipelines
- Improve the reliability, flexibility, and scalability of our existing tools
- Collaborate on our vision as we scale to our next petabyte
- Enhance our workflows using AI tooling
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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