# Software Development Engineer, ElastiCache

This is an opportunity to join one of AWS's most foundational and high-impact engineering teams - the Data Plane team within Amazon ElastiCache and MemoryDB. We own the core in-memory engine that powers millions of customer workloads: the data path, durability layer, replication protocol, snapshot system, and advanced data structures. Our work sits at the intersection of systems programming, database internals, and performance engineering - every microsecond matters when you're serving the world's most latency-sensitive applications. If you've ever found yourself deep in a conversation about write-ahead logs, copy-on-write fork semantics, lock-free data structures, or memory allocator design - and you want to apply those ideas to a system handling millions of operations per second at cloud scale - this team is where you belong. We build the engine behind Amazon MemoryDB, the only Valkey-compatible database that delivers in-memory speed with Multi-AZ durability. We're not just running an open-source cache; we're extending Valkey with novel capabilities - durable replication, active-active conflict resolution, full-text and vector search - while maintaining the sub-millisecond latenc

- **Id**: 4050514
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-software-development-engineer-elasticache-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Vancouver, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T01:25:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
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- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Restricted stock units, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Logistics, Streaming & OTT Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

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- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 4570
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- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 114800
- **Max**: 191800
- **Currency**: CAD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 135133

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T01:25:45Z

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- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
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- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T03:16:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 135133
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