Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS AppSync

Overview

Do you enjoy working on distributed systems and solving problems of scale, availability, and low latency? Are you interested in building and evolving a large-scale distributed system that serves API traffic Do you enjoy working on distributed systems and solving problems of scale, availability, and low latency? Are you interested in building and evolving a large-scale distributed system that serves API traffic for ap

What you'll do

• Do you enjoy working on distributed systems and solving problems of scale, availability, and low latency?
• Are you interested in building and evolving a large-scale distributed system that serves API traffic Do you enjoy working on distributed systems and solving problems of scale, availability, and low latency?
• Are you interested in building and evolving a large-scale distributed system that serves API traffic for applications around the world and stays seamless as traffic scales and infrastructure conditions change?
• If so, then come join the AWS AppSync team.
• AWS AppSync is a fully managed, serverless service for building GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs that securely connect applications to data and events at scale.
• Developers use AppSync to bring together data from sources like Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and HTTP endpoints behind a single API endpoint, and to deliver real-time updates to connected clients through managed WebSocket subscriptions, without having to build and operate the underlying API infrastructure themselves.
• We're looking for a senior engineer who can own the design and delivery of large, complex systems and raise the technical bar across the team.
• As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you'll drive the architecture and technical direction for significant parts of AWS AppSync, take on ambiguous problems that span multiple teams, and set best practices in design, operational excellence, and security.
• You'll mentor other engineers and multiply their impact, influence the roadmap alongside product and engineering leaders, and continuously identify areas of growth within the existing frameworks, tools and processes to develop further technical mechanisms that reduce waste and continuously improve.
• You'll collaborate with engineers throughout the company who are building the next big thing in cloud computing.

Requirements

• Practical experience with GraphQL, AWS.
• Experience level: 5+ yrs.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English.
• Comfortable working on-site in Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN.

Skills