Software Development Engineer, Package Builder Services

Build the infrastructure that builds Amazon. Join the Package Builder Services and work on distributed systems processing millions of build requests and tasks daily and manages the storage of exa-byte scale artifacts and the well loved build website.

As an SDE II youll be responsible in solving challenging distributed system problems delivering key customer asks and adapt the the tool-chain in this increasingly fast-paced development environment.

What Youll Do:

- Own critical components of Amazons Tier-1 build infrastructure

- Design and implement core components for orchestrating build tasks and releasing build requests.

- Infrastructure management for delivering billions of build artifacts world wide.

- Working with Amazon builders directly to intake new features and functionality into the system.

- 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
- 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 thousands of build requests. Every AWS and SDO engineer depends on us to transform source code into deployment-ready artifacts.

Our stack: BEAR(BuildExecutionandReleaseService) sits at the heart of the amazon build system and is responsible for managing concepts such as VersionSets and build task orchestration. BMDS(BrazilMetaDataService) that is one of the main services for reporting package and versionset information. PCLS/VSFLS/BrazilCDN high throughput federation for artifact access world wide. PBW (Package Builder Website) is the main entry point UI for the brazil build system that thousands use everyday.

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