Senior Software Development Engineer (Amazon)

<p><strong>Job Description</strong></p> <p>Our EBMS Real-Time Data Platform team is looking for a Software Development Engineer&nbsp;with hands-on experience in Apache <strong>Flink</strong>, Amazon <strong>Kinesis</strong>, and <strong>Java </strong>to build and maintain&nbsp;our real-time BMS data pipeline that ingests telemetry from thousands of global building&nbsp;management systems. The engineer will be responsible for the full lifecycle of stream-processing applications; from design and development through deployment and production&nbsp;operations with a focus on delivering 99% system uptime, comprehensive observability, and&nbsp;fault-tolerant architecture.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Primary Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design, develop, and optimize Apache Flink stream-processing applications for real- time BMS data ingestion, transformation, and enrichment.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Build and maintain Amazon Kinesis Data Streams infrastructure including shard management, auto-scaling policies, and dead-letter queues.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Implement comprehensive observability: CloudWatch/Grafana dashboards, distributed tracing, structured logging, and tiered alerting (P1/P2/P3) across the full pipeline.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Troubleshoot and resolve production issues across the ingestion-to-serving stack (Kinesis, Flink, DynamoDB, S3, Athena)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (CDK/CloudFormation) for all pipeline components, ensuring repeatable and auditable deployments.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Implement data quality monitoring including record count validation, schema drift detection, and null-rate anomaly detection across all sites.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Job Qualifications</strong></p> <p>The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals and a passion for&nbsp;building reliable, high-throughput distributed systems. They must be detail-oriented,comfortable operating in an on-call environment, and able to communicate effectively with&nbsp;both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Required:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent technical field.</li> <li>Strong proficiency in Java (primary) with production-level experience building and deploying applications.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with Apache Flink or equivalent stream-processing framework (Spark Streaming, Kafka Streams).</li> <li>Experience with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams or similar distributedmessaging/streaming platform.</li> <li>Demonstrated experience building and operating systems with 99%+ uptime SLAs.</li> <li>Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: fault tolerance, exactly-once semantics, checkpointing, backpressure management.</li> <li>Experience with AWS services: DynamoDB, S3, Athena, CloudWatch, IAM.</li> <li>Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform).</li> </ul> <p><strong>Preferred:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience with MQTT, Haystack protocol, or Niagara N4 (building automation / IoT).</li> <li>Familiarity with Apache Avro, AWS Glue Schema Registry, or similar schema management tools.</li> <li>Experience with Grafana, CloudWatch Logs Insights, or distributed tracing frameworks.</li> <li>Knowledge of chaos engineering practices and tools.</li> <li>Prior experience with BMS (Building Management System) or IoT data pipelines.</li> <li>Python proficiency for scripting, data analysis, and tooling.</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>We offer*:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible</li> <li>A competitive salary and good compensation package</li> <li>Personalized career growth</li> <li>Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)</li> <li>Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing</li> <li>Education reimbursement</li> <li>Memorable anniversary presents</li> <li>Corporate events and team buildings</li> <li>Other location-specific benefits</li> </ul> <p>*not applicable for freelancers</p></div>