Software Development Engineer, AWS Geospatial

Do you want to be part of a team building a brandnew AWS service from the ground up If yes come join Amazon Location ( With Amazon Location customers can easily add capabilities such as location based capabilities (maps routes places and more) to applications. Amazon Location provides costeffective locationbased services using highquality data.






Key job responsibilities
Your team members Sr. SDEs and managers will support you in your onboarding to operating a service at AWS and will genuinely be happy to jump in and help.

We are looking for a software engineer to drive feature development for Amazon Location Service. You will take the lead on end to end full stack design development of our new services. You will deliver a best in class customer experience and operate the service to the highest standards.

We seek candidates with Business Intelligence engineering experience to leverage proven skills in data analysis visualization and insights generation.


We seek candidate who will be part of an oncall rotation typically for one week every three months.






A day in the life
Start your day grab a coffee (or tea) say hi to your team participate in the daily standup participate in a design review meeting have a oneonone with one of your engineers work on your teams roadmap guide the operational review meeting to monitor the health of the service.

About the team
Our team is passionate about location privacy and building modern serverless applications. We believe that location is a concept that people need to bring to and embed within their applications. We want to provide an easy way for AWS customers to do this while not comprising on privacy. And we want to do all this while building things in a modern serverless way on the AWS cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture:
Here at AWS we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employeeled affinity groups reaching 40000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings and host annual and ongoing learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives learn and be curious and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance:
Our team puts a high value on worklife balance. It isnt about how many hours you spend at home or at work; its about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to lifelong happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth:
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy oneonone mentoring and thorough but kind code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a betterrounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Experience programming with at least one software programming language
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Business Intelligence or data engineering experience to leverage proven skills in data analysis visualization and insights generation.

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

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The base salary for this position ranges from $114800/year up to $191800/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.