Software Development Engineer, Amazon Connect, Amazon Connect

As part of the AWS Applied AI 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.
Amazon Connect is a highly disruptive cloud-based contact center that enables businesses to deliver engaging dynamic and personal customer service experiences. Amazon Connect is the result of the ten years of development that went into building the tools Amazon uses to provide its award-winning customer service at massive scale and launching it as a publicly available AWS service. With Amazon Connect businesses can create their own cloud-based contact center and start taking calls in minutes. Amazon Connect leverages the power of Artificial Intelligence and the large ecosystem of AWS including Amazon Lex Amazon Polly AWS Lambda Amazon S3 and Amazon Kinesisto provide a truly frustration-free easy-to-use extensible and natural customer experience. This technology is transforming the industry reshaping how customers interact with businesses and redefining how agents deliver service.
See our section in Andy Jassy 2020 re:Invent keynote: seeking a Software Development Engineer to help us build the voice infrastructure and services that are reshaping the Contact Center industry. Youll engineer cutting-edge solutions for our internally developed platform that handles tens thousands of concurrent calls globally - technology so innovative that others follow our lead. This role is your chance to solve unprecedented problems at massive scale with the industrys best talent on what we believe to be the worlds most advanced telephony network. Come join us!

Key job responsibilities
As a developer on our team youll own code end-to-end from design to development and work closely with senior technical leaders within the team and across AWS. Youll have a sound understanding of computer science fundamentals and practical industry experience working across the stack with technology involving modern web SOA NoSQL databases AI ML Big Data and more.


A day in the life
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About the team
AWS Solutions

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.

- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations
- Experience with SIP RTP and other VoIP Concepts
- Experience with telecom industry problem sets including Local Number Portability (LNP) SMS and IMS/Intelligent Network design
- Familiarity with open-source SIP stacks and telecom software such as Kamailio pjsip or FreeSWITCH

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