The Transactional Services organization builds some of the most foundational distributed systems that underpin and power many of the large AWS services, including critical components of the Amazon.com retail platform. We specialize in building high performance, highly available data systems that provide strong transactional guarantees at very high scale.We build "Journal" a highly durable and highly available, append only transaction log. Journal is both super low latency and super high throughput. Journal is optimized at the lowest operating system and network levels to achieve this. If you want to go deep down the software stack and learn how things really work at the lowest level, then this job is for you.Apply if you are an Software Development Engineer and want to build a major part of this core transactional data engine.Key job responsibilitiesAs you build this service, you participate in the full software development life cycle. You will:* Brainstorm new features.* Design architectures that address novel, cutting edge distributed, highly available and scalable challenges* Code and test in multiple high performance programming languages including Java and Rust* Support your system. We have end to end responsibility for our system. We "eat our own dog food". We want to experience our system as our customers do.* Mentor other engineersA day in the lifeJournal engineers are constantly challenged to think of unique and innovative solutions. The quality bar is high.As an engineer here, you will work on the hardest engineering problems in distributed systems at a massive scale and on multiple dimensions. You will exercise your intellectual curiosity, work with motivated teams of sharp individuals, and get insightful guidance from senior and principal engineers.This is a hands-on position in which you will own everything from end to end: requirements gathering, designs, design reviews, implementations, code reviews, incremental feature launches, operations, mentoring, and the driving of continuous improvement.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Seattle, WA, USA- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent- 2+ years experience building large distributed, transactional systemsOur compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $134,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individua