Amazon Dev Centre Canada ULC Hiring for Software Development Engineer – QLDB, QLDB at Vancouver, BC Full Time

• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science related fields OR 1+ years equivalent experience in software development
• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Solid understanding of best coding practices including design, unit testing, and peer code-reviews.
• Excellent problem solving skills; ability to simplify and innovate.
• Ability to work on a team with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Job summary

The Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) is a next generation purpose-built database which is re-imagining how developers use databases. We keep an immutable and cryptographically verifiable ledger of every transaction performed on the database. It is a revolutionary, highly-scalable and available OLTP database. Join us during this formative period of the product and help us define the future of QLDB as well as the database industry itself.

This role is with the Developer Experience team, which is central to our strategy for driving adoption of QLDB. We want QLDB to be a joy to use and to have developers fall in love with its simplicity, ease of use, and raw power.

Currently this teams owns the AWS QLDB Console, where we are writing an online query IDE in Typescript and React. We also own all the drivers to interacting with QLDB in Java, Node, Python, Go, .NET, and Rust and we need to support many more languages. Next we own the tools for interacting with the database as well as a native desktop IDE application. The overwhelming majority of this code is open sourced on Github.

Finally, we also own the Continuous Data Protection aspect of QLDB where we are working to continuously safely take backups of QLDB instances.

So, if you like dabbling in a plethora of languages, if you love the nuance once language offers over another, or if you like writing open source code (and being paid for it!), or if you want to write high-performance systems to transfer and store petabytes of data, or if you want to write the best-in-class IDE for interacting with modern databases, this is the team for you!

We are an empathic team where we value, respect, and encourage work/life harmony. We’re agile with a small ‘a’. We’re interested in ensuring our developers get what they want out of their career at Amazon, building the skills that matter to you, while building industry-disrupting technology.

1) An Intro to Amazon QLDB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G9epn3BfqE

2) What is Amazon QLDB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiEbMJ86dGQ

3) AWS Launchpad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APq9PaaZJPA

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance

Our team cares deeply about your happiness and work/life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

• A strong desire to learn and invent new things!
• Experience in developing large scale or complex applications.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, asynchronous architectures and distributed algorithms.
• Excellent leadership, verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency on different program languages and modern web development technologies and techniques, including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, etc.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.