Software Development EngineerThe Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink (MSF) team is looking for a Software Development Engineer to work on Apache Flink framework. We're looking for engineers who can learn and build distributed stream processing engines. If you are a builder who is enthusiastic about data streaming and excited about contributing to open source, this may be the role for you.Real-time data processing from a stream needs substantial investments from customers in writing the application and maintaining the necessary infrastructure.
MSF service provides customers with fully managed stream processing platform leveraging Apache Flink framework where customers can develop their applications using SQL or Java. With the service all that customers need to do is provide the application code that needs to be run containing the business logic to process the stream and service takes care of providing building blocks/abstractions such as processing windows, execution semantics, checkpoints and infrastructure capabilities such as elasticity, fail-over, etc. eliminating complexity of stream processing.As a member of MSF team you will be:working on making improvements to the stream processing engine, Apache Flink to make MSF service the defacto service to run stream processing applicationupstream compatibility is a core tenet of MSF service and your changes to improve the engine will be contributed back to open sourceworking on improving efficiency and availability of the engine, adding ease of use features and push the envelope of stream processingwriting quality, reusable code for highly scalable and reliable cloud-based servicesworking closely with product and development management to architect the servicebeing a champion for operational excellence by Insisting on the Highest Standardswriting code that continuously improves service reliability and availabilityTo be successful in this role, you should have experience working on large-scale systems, enjoys solving complex software problems, and possesses analytical, design and problem-solving skills.
While not necessary having experience with data processing technologies such as Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Apache Storm, Hadoop frameworks is a plus.Come join us to make stream processing main stream for our customers.On-Call Responsibility: This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don't like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that don't get paged for the same issue again.