SDE2, Builder Foundations GRID

Join Amazons orchestration engineering team! Were seeking a Software Development Engineer II to contribute to the Center of Excellence for Orchestration (ORCA) part of the Managed Compute Runtimes (MCR) organization under BuilderWorks. Youll be working on Amazons tier-1 multi-tenant managed runtime ecosystem that powers how 600 teams across Amazonfrom Ordering and Prime Video to Alexa Kindle and Kiva Robotsorchestrate their most complex business processes.

ORCA isnt just another platformits the orchestration brain behind Amazons operations. Built on Herds foundation and unifying the capabilities of KIS Legos Torch and Jarvis ORCA transforms chaotic distributed workflows into elegant manageable systems. Available in both MAWS and Native AWS it handles everything from real-time order processing to massive batch operations across Amazons global infrastructure.

Every time a customer places an order streams a video or asks Alexa a question your code is part of making it happen. Youll solve distributed systems puzzles that directly impact Amazons ability to serve millions of customers while enabling engineering teams to ship faster and more reliably.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable distributed systems for global retail ordering workflows
- Develop high-performance maintainable code using advanced software engineering principles
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create innovative technical solutions
- Conduct comprehensive code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices
- Optimize system performance reliability and security

- 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
- 3 years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development Release or Live Ops) experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Bachelors degree or equivalent

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

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