DESCRIPTION
Are you someone who has a desire to innovate in the language runtime space to increase performance and observability?
The JDK organisation is looking for senior engineers.
In 2018, the AWS JDK team migrated Amazon's default JDK to OpenJDK. In order to do this we built rigorous security and quality mechanisms around OpenJDK. We're now able to apply security and Amazon custom patches to the internal OpenJDK as soon as they're available. In early 2019, we took this work public and launched Amazon Corretto, our distribution of OpenJDK. With Corretto, we make our work on OpenJDK available to our customers and the OpenJDK community at large.
We believe that a solid technical foundation and a strong interest in the subject matter can make you successful on the team and we have the opportunities to help you learn and grow in this space. Knowledge and experience in related technologies are generally applicable and valuable.
Java is used for the majority of services in Amazon and nearly all public-facing AWS services. Because of this, we have a vested interest in running the best-possible JDK in areas like security and performance.
Key job responsibilities
1. Design and develop sophisticated features in profiling tools and in the Java runtime.
2. Contribute to performance optimization and compliance with industry standard JVM specification.
3. Contribute to the design of future runtime features, and work with teams and services inside AWS to solve their business challenges.
4. Support existing deployments of our product on an ongoing basis, addressing any critical issues in live deployments.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
1. Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
2. Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
3. Experience in professional, non-internship software development.
4. Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design.
5. Bachelor's degree.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
1. Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
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