Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Technology

SoftwareDevEngineerIII,ProgrammingFoundations

$168–227k Boston, Massachusetts, United States FULL TIME
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Software Dev Engineer III, Programming Foundations at Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.. Skills: Programming foundations, Developer tools, Shared software platform. Design developer tools. Build developer tools”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Debugging issues

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years non-internship professional software development experience, 5+ years programming with at least one software programming language, 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, Experience as a mentor, Experience as a tech lead, Experience leading an engineering team

Nice to Have

5+ years full software development life cycle experience, Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

What You'll Do.

Design developer tools

Build developer tools

Maintain package managers

Work on 3PSW repository mirrors

Collaborate with engineers

Understand engineer pain points

Build tools that address pain points

Review code from teammates

Help others debug issues

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Engineers across Amazon; Teammates

Full Job Description

Join the Programming Foundations Team within Amazon Builder Experience as a Software Development Engineer. The Language Experience team in Builder Tools is the center of excellence for Amazon's use of programming languages, highly-leveraged shared software, and application build tools. Our tools are used in all aspects of the business, and their care and evolution are of critical importance to the effectiveness of Amazon. We're looking for a deeply technical leader interested in sustaining and evolving the shared software platform used by nearly every service within the company. Those with experience evolving broadly distributed and highly complex software libraries, such as large open source projects and mission critical foundational software stacks will be given an opportunity to have company wide impact. Key job responsibilities You will design and build developer tools that Amazon engineers use every day. You will work with the languages and libraries that power Amazon's services, making them easier to use and more reliable. You will help maintain our build tools, compilers and package managers. You will work on our 3PSW repository mirrors. You will collaborate with engineers across Amazon to understand their pain points and build tools that address them. You will write code, review code from teammates, and help others debug issues with our tools. A day in the life Your work will directly affect how builders at Amazon do their jobs. We are a language expertise team at the heart of being able to compile and shift software. This is practical work that requires understanding what builders actually need and building tools that solve their problems without getting in the way. About the team The Programming Foundations Team is part of Amazon Builder Experience. We work on the basic tools and infrastructure that builders use to write software. Our team includes engineers who care about developer experience and want to make building software at Amazon easier. We do not

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