Software Development Engineer II, Intelligent Cloud Hosting (ICON)

Do you want to ensure a delightful shopping experience for millions of customers everyday The Intelligent Cloud Hosting (ICON) team is looking for a Software Development Engineer who is passionate to work on the development of innovative software products which will help boost engineers productivity in Amazon and improving services posture towards security availability efficiency compliance and maintainability. We aim to eliminate vast quantities of undifferentiated and often tedious work for Amazon development teams - our opportunity for impact to tens of thousands of developers is enormous.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer in the ICON team you will working on the development of next generation managed hosting platform technologies. You will lead the design implementation and successful delivery of large-scale services. You will be influencing your teams technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach. You will work side-by-side and collaborate with strategic technical stakeholders and customers to develop new products that meet the needs of the Amazon e-Commerce platform. You will partner with multiple teams to come up with novel ways to make our retail website more secure and available for Amazon customers. You will solve complex yet fun challenges by looking at the big picture while diving deep.

The right candidate will possess proven software engineering skills with the experience of creating and launching large scale distributed systems with the help of a team. You are expected to be versatile able to thrive in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment and eager to mentor junior engineers. You are comfortable managing competing priorities and are able to bring order to ambiguous scenarios. Maturity impeccable judgment and the ability to influence and lead are essential to success in this role. You are data-driven and analytical. You can clearly & effectively communicate (written as well as verbally) across teams.

A day in the life
As a Software Development Engineer on this team you will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition vision design roadmap and development of innovative software products which will help boost engineers productivity in Amazon for improving services posture towards security availability efficiency compliance and maintainability. Key responsibilities:

- Work with the team to help drive business decisions
- Design implement test deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to drive services optimizations cost and security.
- You provide insightful code reviews and take ownership of outcome.
- Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables
- Write high quality distributed system software
- Work in an agile startup-like development environment where you are always working on the most important stuff.

About the team
The ICON team hosts Amazon websites and backend platform services that power the customer experience. We abstract and centralize the Infrastructure management from service teams bring agility to business processes and manage infrastructure of 100s of Tier-1 services. The ICON team is located within the Intelligent Control (ICC) organization who owns connecting our worldwide websites and other consumer experiences such as Kindle Amazon Video and Alexa to the internet as well as ensuring the highest level of availability security and privacy of the web services that power the experience we deliver to our customers worldwide.

- 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors 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. As a total compensation company Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription basic life & AD&D insurance) Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) paid time off and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN BC Vancouver - 114800.00 - 191800.00 CAD annually