Software Development Engineer II, Region Flexibility Engineering (RFE)

The Region Flexibility Engineering (RFE) team builds and leverages foundational infrastructure capabilities tools and datasets needed to support the rapid global expansion of Amazons SOA infrastructure. Our team focuses on robust and scalable architecture patterns and engineering best practices driving adoption of ever-evolving AWS technologies.

RFE is looking for a passionate results-oriented inventive Software Development Engineer (SDE) to refine and deliver our grand vision design and implement technical solutions for regional placement automation cross-region libraries and tooling useful for teams across Amazon. You will be responsible for solving algorithmically complex problems work on front and backend services that can scale to millions of requests build products that will reach tens of thousands of developers and deploy them globally delivering an exceptional customer experience.

If you enjoy designing and building highly distributed systems that can scale and solving challenging problems come join us! Given the size and impact of RFEs customer base we understand the importance of making our development tools just work. We make it easy to build high quality reliable systems build and maintain Amazon Customer trust that support Amazons evolving architectural needs. Come help us create and evolve the abstractions that make developing software at Amazon even more efficient and flexible!


Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer (SDE) you will solve some of the most intriguing problems in software architecture while designing and building highly scalable services and solutions from the ground up. Our project spans across all of Amazon Stores Digital and Others (SDO) Businesses. We work closely with AWS teams to advise them on SDO requirements to set up required infrastructure. You will work closely with and learn from a large Principal Engineering community. As innovators who embrace new technology you will be empowered to choose the right highly scalable and available technology to solve complex problems and will directly influence product design.

- 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
- 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. As a total compensation company Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription basic life & AD&D insurance) Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) paid time off and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN BC Vancouver - 114800.00 - 191800.00 CAD annually