Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Technology

Sr.SoftwareDevelopmentEngineer

$185–250k New York, New York, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“Sr. Software Development Engineer at Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.. Skills: Software Development, Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing. Design services. Build services”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Tackle scalability challenges; Tackle performance challenges; Tackle distributed computing challenges; Dig into complex operational issues; Solve challenging problems

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years non-internship professional software development, 5+ years programming experience, 5+ years leading design or architecture, Experience as a mentor, Experience as a tech lead, Experience leading an engineering team

Nice to Have

5+ years full software development life cycle, Coding standards experience, Code reviews experience, Source control management experience, Build processes experience, Testing experience, Operations experience

What You'll Do.

Interact with customers

Understand business goals

Deliver functionality

Raise code quality bar

Dig into operational issues

Help customers build applications

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work across AWS teams; Team work of engineers

Full Job Description

The AWS Commerce Platform provides the back and front-end services that enable AWS customers to purchase AWS services and understand and manage their infrastructure costs. Come to join our team to tackle some of the hardest scalability, performance, and distributed computing challenges in the world. We process trillions of events per month using stream processing techniques (Kinesis), process billions of line items via map reduce (EMR), and manage artifacts through the latest in database technologies (DynamoDB and Aurora). We process big data and provide tools for customers to interactively understand their bills. We also provide the analytics that let customers manage billions of dollars of IT usage and spending. Because we sit at the nexus of all AWS services and interact directly with end-customers, we also work closely across all AWS teams to ensure that we offer a great customer experience. As an engineer in the team, you will design, build and operate services that will help AWS to meet the needs of our customers. Delivering a reliable and high-performance service at AWS scale requires team work of engineers with technical expertise and creativity. At Amazon, we also expect engineers like you to interact with customers, other teams, to understand our business goals, and to innovate rapidly, delivering high-quality and ground-breaking functionality. You are creative, curious, responsible, and able to work with others to rapidly turn an idea into working code. You’re excited about writing code, implementing big ideas, and helping to coach those around you to raise the team’s bar for code quality. You want the opportunity to grow your technical and professional skills while helping AWS grow. You relish the opportunity to dig into complex operational issues and to help customers build the next generation of applications. If you enjoy engaging in passionate discussions with smart people and letting the best ideas rise to the top while designing and building systems

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