SDE II, AWS Field Experience
Seattle, WA - USA
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Job Summary
As a Software Engineer at Amazon you will work on distributed cloud systems. As part of this team you will be responsible for helping design and build the systems that together power our service. You will have the opportunity to work on full-stack development of the user experience for this service. Members of our team have areas of focus but our general stack includes back-end API development using AWS Lambda security and identity NoSQL data storage on DynamoDB complex event orchestration and automation real-time data processing and infrastructure automation using tools like CloudFormation and AWS CDK.
Great candidates for this position possess a strong understanding of computer science and a passion for learning new technologies to solve complex problems. You will have the opportunity to apply this passion by leveraging your technical skills in areas such as algorithms distributed systems web development front-end/back-end design and more. As a member of our engineering team you will have the opportunity not only to work with and learn from others but also to drive the direction of our product and become a technical leader in our greater organization.
Key job responsibilities
You will help our team solve problems such as:
Design and implement fault-tolerant systems and services that run at large scale and ensure high availability guarantees
Dive into complex architectures research and identify new technology that can help optimize performance
Design and implement systems that will help our service achieve 3x the current scale within the next 2 years
Design and implement software that will help minimize outages and improve the availability of our service leveraging well documented operational excellence (OE) techniques
About the team
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- Bachelors degree or equivalent
- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Knowledge of computer architecture operating systems and parallel computing
- 2 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- 2 years of contributing to new and current systems architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) experience
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle including coding standards software architectures code reviews source control management continuous deployments testing and operational excellence
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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
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