15 hours ago
Cape Town, South AfricaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain stable, scalable, and performant software services for AWS EC2.
- Own and contribute to quality designs and solutions for complex technical problems.
- Develop understandable, pragmatic code and participate in thorough code reviews.
- Support services in production, including rotating on-call duties.
- Influence engineers and teams outside the immediate team while helping shape EC2 architecture at Amazon scale.
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including coding, testing, operations, and source control.
- Develop engineering expertise through varied projects, mentoring, training, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience programming in at least one software programming language.
- Preferred: 3+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Applicants must be able to work lawfully in South Africa and provide identity, passport, and applicable work permit documentation as required.
Benefits
- Mentorship, knowledge sharing, extensive training materials, and career-advancing resources.
- Work-life balance and flexibility-oriented work culture.
- Opportunities to engage with engineers through talks, demos, and internal communities.
- Inclusive employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups and inclusion events.
- Disability accommodations and support during the application and hiring process.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.