Software Development Engineer, SES (Simple Email Service)

As part of the AWS Solutions organization we have a vision to provide business applications leveraging Amazons unique experience and expertise that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazons real-world experience to build opinionated turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

Come and build the future with us as we redefine the email communication experience for people and applications!

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is on a mission to revolutionize email experiences for our customers and their end users. We are at the forefront of creating richer more engaging email functionalities innovating at every step to provide a seamless unified experience.

As a Software Development Engineer for Amazon SES youll work on backend and customer-facing systems contributing to the development and improvement of our email services. Youll focus on building reliable and scalable solutions collaborating with other engineers to solve complex technical challenges and ensuring our services are highly available and scalable to meet the needs of our global customer base.

As a member of the SES engineering team your job will allow you to work with customers and other technology leaders at Amazon to translate strategic business needs into features and projects with an opportunity to participate in strategic planning contributing to the overall direction of the service.

Key job responsibilities
The ideal candidate will have strong design and coding skills. The candidate will be a catalyst for change by working with the various product managers and principal engineers to code and design flexible and scalable solutions and work on some of the most complex challenges. If you are passionate about delighting business users with great and compelling cloud based solutions then we would like to talk to you.
As a Software Development Engineer on the Amazon SES team you will:

. Design develop and support a world-class search platform serving individuals and businesses of all sizes
Produce code that is robust efficient and maintainable; our primary languages are Java Python React and C/C
. Work on challenging problems in areas such as data storage query optimization JVM performance optimization security machine learning and more.
Continually challenge what exists and explore what should be changed to best meet evolving customer needs
Possess expert knowledge in large scale distributed system design and engineering best practices
Participate in setting a vision and objectives for Search Services in alignment with customer needs and market opportunities
Drive and work on algorithm and architecture design execute and deliver results
Invent the future of search and log analytics in the cloud
Join a great group of motivated top-notch people and work with them to solve challenging problems in a fun collaborative environment

About the team
Amazon SES is building a team to build richer and more engaging experiences to our customers. We are innovating new ways for enable businesses to run targeted campaigns and drive user engagement through email.

In the SES team youll be joining an engineering team collaborating closely across multiple global regions. You will have the opportunity to impact the service roadmap and be given the time to be creative and think of new features that we can provide our customers. You will own and implement specific components build highly available secure scalable distributed and event-driven systems and help define the system architecture.

This is a full-stack development position leaning towards back-end work.

Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

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Work/Life Balance
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- 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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.