1 day ago
Cambridge, MA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, implement, test, document, deliver, and maintain embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services.
- Translate functional requirements into robust, efficient, supportable solutions that fit within the overall system architecture.
- Develop software solutions with a focus on generative artificial intelligence.
- Evaluate and make decisions about new or existing software products and tools.
- Conduct performance analysis and optimization to reduce latency, improve throughput, and enhance resource utilization.
- Integrate security best practices, including encryption, role-based access control, and secure API authentication.
- Produce comprehensive software documentation.
- Mentor junior development engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- At least two years of experience as a Software Development Engineer or in a related software development occupation; the basic qualifications also require 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- Two years of experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, embedded, or distributed software using Java, Python, C#, C++, or object-oriented design.
- Two years of experience with data structures, algorithms, or object-oriented design principles; version control such as Git; web technologies or web services; software testing; performance optimization; security practices; databases; AWS or similar cloud infrastructure; and large language models.
- One year of experience creating and maintaining large-scale distributed applications or services using cloud infrastructure.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
- Preferred: 3+ years covering the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $143,700–$194,400 per year, with potential equity, sign-on payments, restricted stock units, and other compensation excluded from the salary field.
- Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance and mental health support, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
- Fixed-location role based in the Cambridge, Massachusetts office, with telecommuting from a home office potentially allowed.
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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.