Software Development Engineer, Brazil Build Compute Team

Build the infrastructure that builds Amazon. Join the Build Compute Team and work on distributed systems processing 25 million tasks daily across 12K hosts - powering every software deployment from Alexa to AWS.

As an SDE II youll solve challenging distributed systems problems at massive scale - from optimistic concurrency and circuit breakers to AI-powered optimization. Were building next-generation infrastructure on NAWS architecture to harden security boundaries scaling to 120K build instances across Amazon.

What Youll Do:

- Own critical components of Amazons Tier-1 build infrastructure

- Design and implement core components to power large scale NAWS-based build fleet

- Leverage AI/ML for intelligent task scheduling and resource optimization

- Scale systems handling 2-3x growth while maintaining high performance and availability

- Debug complex distributed systems issues

- Mentor teammates on operational excellence and system architecture

Were looking for engineers who thrive on making systems faster more reliable and more secure at Amazon scale.


Key job responsibilities
- Design implement and maintain distributed systems for Brazil Build System (Tier-1) processing 25 million tasks daily

- Build next-generation NAWS-based infrastructure to harden security boundaries scaling to 120K build instances

- Operate and continuously improve task dispatching (NBTM) and build execution (DockerBuildFleetNode) with 99.99% availability

- Participate in on-call rotation solving difficult customer and operational problems while addressing root causes over short-term workarounds

- Deliver high-quality maintainable code with comprehensive test automation (unit and integration testing)

- Review code mentor teammates and train new engineers on system architecture testing practices and operational procedures

- Work with legacy and modern technologies making appropriate trade-offs to leave systems better and easier to maintain

- Communicate status and changes to stakeholders keeping all informed of updates to plans and deliverables

About the team
We power Amazons Brazil Build System - a Tier-1 platform processing 25 million tasks daily across 12K hosts (384K cores). Every AWS and SDO engineer depends on us to transform source code into deployment-ready artifacts.

Our stack: NeverBuildTwiceManager (NBTM) handles distributed task orchestration with JournalDB transactions optimistic concurrency. DockerBuildFleetNode manages containerized build execution with sophisticated resource allocation and real-time capacity management across the fleet.

The challenge: maintain 99.99% availability at massive scale while continuously optimizing performance mitigating risks and solving complex distributed systems problems. Your code directly impacts thousands of developers and Amazons deployment velocity.

- 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
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually