About the position
Are you passionate about transforming business challenges into technological breakthroughs? Join Amazon as a Software Development Engineer (SDE) and help shape the future of global commerce. At Amazon, customer obsession drives everything we do. As an SDE, you will build scalable solutions that impact millions of customers, sellers, and products worldwide. We're seeking exceptional tech minds who thrive in a fast-paced environment where: You'll work on industry-defining projects with measurable customer impact, Innovation cycles are measured in weeks, not years, You'll build new products and features from the ground up, You'll collaborate with talented teams to solve complex technical challenges, Your solutions will scale to serve customers globally. If you're ready to turn bold ideas into reality while working alongside some of the best minds in technology, we want to hear from you.
Responsibilities
- Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design for systems
- Code and test system components while participating in code and design reviews to ensure high quality, maintainable solutions
- Work collaboratively with other AWS Redshift teams to deliver and operate services while dealing with ambiguity in new service development
- Take ownership of overall system architecture, with focus on scalability, reliability, and performance
- Mentor other engineers, help define the technical culture, and contribute to team growth through leadership
- Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack
- Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security
- Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products
- Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language like Java, C++, Rust, or Python building and operating mission-critical, highly available systems
Nice-to-haves
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Requires strong coding skills with emphasis on logical thinking, data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving capabilities
- Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems architecture
- Experience performing live system and core analysis using GDB
Benefits
- 401k
- health_insurance
- dental_insurance
- vision_insurance
- life_insurance
- disability_insurance
- paid_holidays
- paid_volunteer_time
- tuition_reimbursement
- employee_stock_purchase_plan
- professional_development
- flexible_scheduling
- work_from_home_options
