Software Dev Engineer II, ICON
Software Dev Engineer II, ICON
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Job Description
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 largescale services. You will be influencing your teams technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach. You will work sidebyside and collaborate with strategic technical stakeholders and customers to develop new products that meet the needs of the Amazon eCommerce 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 datadriven 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:
1)Work with the team to help drive business decisions
2)Design implement test deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to drive services optimizations cost and security.
3)You provide insightful code reviews and take ownership of outcome.
4)Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables
5)Write high quality distributed system software
6)Work in an agile startuplike 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 Tier1 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 noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship 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.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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 largescale services. You will be influencing your teams technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach. You will work sidebyside and collaborate with strategic technical stakeholders and customers to develop new products that meet the needs of the Amazon eCommerce 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 datadriven 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:
1)Work with the team to help drive business decisions
2)Design implement test deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to drive services optimizations cost and security.
3)You provide insightful code reviews and take ownership of outcome.
4)Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables
5)Write high quality distributed system software
6)Work in an agile startuplike 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 Tier1 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 noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship 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.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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