Software Development Engineer, Workshop Studio

Workshop Studio (WS) is an AWS platform that powers hands-on technical learning and product experiences for hundreds of thousands of current and potential AWS customers. WS is transitioning to an AI-native architecture with agentic systems that will discover content guide participants in real time automate workshop quality review and generate post-event intelligence.

Key job responsibilities
Design and implement fault-tolerant systems and services that run at large scale and ensure high availability guarantees using AWS services including but not limited to: Lambda Step Functions DynamoDB API Gateway CloudFront SQS SNS AppSync KMS etc..

Own defining disambiguating designing and implementing multi-tier distributed software systems and applications. Dive into complex architectures research and identify new technology that can help optimize performance.

Design and implement systems that will help our service scale within a year. Design and implement software that will help minimize outages and improve the availability of our service.

Estimate effort plan implementation and launch systems that meet requirements for functionality performance scalability reliability and adherence to development goals and principles.

Experiment innovate and deliver fast agile and reliable with high quality and low technical debt.
You should be passionate about building improving and championing the product and a strong sense of ownership is a must.

Leverage GenAI to automate operational tasks for the team maintain runbooks SOPs and troubleshooting guides based on resolved incidents code changes and operational patterns

About the team
The Workshop Studio team owns one of the largest fleet of AWS accounts in the world. We own React web apps CDK infrastructure Go and Python Lambdas Step Functions workflows DynamoDB data stores git repositories for workshop artifacts and an analytics layer built on Redshift. The team includes an engineering manager product manager several backend engineers and a front-end engineer with shared access to a UX designer technical program managers business intelligence engineer and senior engineers including a principal engineer.

- 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 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

- 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

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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 NJ Jersey City - 158100.00 - 213800.00 USD annually
USA NY New York - 158100.00 - 213800.00 USD annually
USA TX Austin - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually