Software Development Engineer, Amazon Learn

At Amazon Learn we hire the brightest minds in technology to innovate and build solutions that benefit our customers. Were investing in a world-class technical team to revolutionize how we develop and deliver training. Your mission will be to enable more than 3 million Amazonians to grow their careers and enhance their impact on our customers.

Join us and shape the evolution of Amazon Learn while leading mission-critical projects early in your career. Your design expertise coding skills and innovative thinking will help solve some of the most complex technical challenges in distributed systems automation optimization scalability and security and thats just the beginning.

Beyond working on high-impact projects youll have abundant opportunities to connect with fellow Amazonians fostering both personal and professional growth while expanding your professional network.

Ready to chart your own path at Amazon Apply now and be part of our transformative journey.




Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive design and bring innovative products and services to market.
- Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes for our customers.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
- Communicating status and progress of deliverables to schedule and sharing learnings/ innovations with your team and stakeholders
- Own and operate the systems that you build
- Contribute to planning design implementation testing operations and process improvement
- Get firsthand experience engineering on AWS services such as Lambda S3 DynamoDB and others

A day in the life
- You collaborate with your Peers Product and UX on the full software development lifecycle including scoping design code testing documentation deployment and maintenance.

- You attend Daily Standup to provide status updates

- Actively participate in operational support for your team and ensure that the root causes of operational issues are identified and resolved.

- Find out what it takes to engineer systems for Amazon Scale
- Get firsthand experience engineering client apps as well as AWS services such as Lambda S3 DynamoDB and others

About the team
At Amazon Learn our mission is to deliver products and services that protect prepare and advance Amazonians. We Strive to be Earths Best Employer by enabling businesses to force multiply through highly trained ICs and managers while giving employees opportunities to meet their career objectives. True to our mission the Learn team prioritizes work on behalf of Amazonians across three pillars: We protect employees by ensuring they are compliant with local federal and international laws; we also safeguard our culture and reputation through training such as Amazon Leadership Principles and Amazon Security Awareness. (2) We prepare Amazonians to operate at a high bar irrespective of their job family or seniority. (3) We acknowledge that everybody has a unique career journey; therefore we help advance everybodys career through promotions and job-family transitions.

Tactically we develop enterprise-scale software solutions for the learning space while operating the most widely used LMS system within Amazon (Amazon Learn). Our systems deliver training to every employee and contractor at Amazon. We currently support over 3MM active learners each year. Our platform provides a mix of online learning virtual instructor-led and live instructor-led capabilities.

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations 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

- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C C# Java Python Golang PowerShell Ruby
- Experience taking a leading role in building complex software or computing infrastructure that has been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience handling ambiguous or undefined challenges through strong problem solving abilities
- Experience communicating to senior management and customers verbally and in writing
- Obsession with quality operational excellence and customer experience
- Strong problem solving and analytical abilities

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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