Big Data Engineer (Amazon Web Services, EMR) Job in Palo Alto, California US

Big Data Engineer (Amazon Web Services, EMR)

Amazon Data Analytics team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience and desire to build Big Data services and applications. As a senior engineer, you will work independently and with other teams at Amazon to architect and develop back end large scale data processing systems and APIs for developers to consume. Amazon Data Analytics is part of the Elastic MapReduce service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Key Responsibilities: Conceive, design and implement new services and offerings that further adoption of AWS EMR service. Translate ambigous business requirements into detailed architecture and design Design, develop, test and launch code written in Java, Pig, Hive, Python Responsible for large portions of the systems architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance. Responsible for real-time operational support of the team?s functional areas. Maintain current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing web technology. Capable to work with a minimum of technical supervision and supplemental engineering support, while responding efficiently to multiple program priorities.