Software Development Engineer II

Description

Are you interested in building information systems that scale to trillions of objects at millisecond latency using the latest technologies? Do you want to work with the latest GenAI technologies in a fast moving team of builders? Do you want to build systems that millions of customers depend on every day?

The AWS Identity team owns and operates highly scalable, highly available distributed systems that are used by all AWS customers and internal service teams alike. We are pioneers in areas such as identity, access management, security and providing massively scaled, distributed platform capabilities to all of AWS. We enable our customers to control and secure the most sensitive data on the internet. We are building some of the largest and most complex distributed systems in the world, and we need brilliant engineering leaders like you to come work with us on exciting new initiatives!

We are building exciting new features that dramatically simplify how enterprise customers search, manage and reason about their AWS resources. We are looking for a talented builder who will be responsible for building the next generation of features that enable customers to manage and secure their AWS workloads at scale.

We are looking for technically strong software engineers with deep knowledge in web services, backend storage, and distributed systems. The ideal candidate takes pride in tackling challenges, excels at working in an agile environment, and gets excited about owning the architecture of a set of critical platform services that serve customers globally every second of every day.

You will provide technical leadership to the team that owns design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operation of globally distributed systems that are core to all of AWS.

Key job responsibilities

• Architects, designs, develops and operates a low-latency, highly available distributed system
• Continuous improvement of all operational metrics and automation tools for your team’s software
• Owns implementation of a long-term product strategy
• Executes against project plans and delivery commitments
• Mentors and coaches junior engineers to maintain a best-in-class engineering team

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, VA, Herndon - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

Company - Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Job ID: A10588089