4 days ago
Base Salary
$158k - $214k/yr
Responsibilities
- Understand customer needs and engineer new Firecracker features to address them.
- Own and automate operational processes for global-scale compute platforms.
- Develop ideas and methods to improve quality and development efficiency.
- Innovate in ephemeral compute platforms and contribute to the Firecracker multi-year roadmap.
- Maintain the Firecracker open-source project.
- Participate in on-call support, typically once every eight weeks.
- Design and develop reliable, scalable, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software systems.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 2 years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- At least 1 year of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
- At least 1 year of experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- At least 1 year of object-oriented design experience.
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
- Preferred: at least 3 years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
- Employee assistance program, mental health support, and medical advice line.
- Flexible Spending Accounts and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units may be included in the Amazon package.
- Team mentorship, training, and an inclusive workplace culture.
- On-call duty is typically once every eight weeks.
- Location: New York, New York, USA.
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.