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Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build production-grade, low-latency, highly available systems that handle millions of requests and scale with customer demand.
- Design and develop distributed, multi-tiered, multi-threaded software applications, tools, systems, and services.
- Work across the technology stack using Java, TypeScript, and Rust, while learning additional languages as needed.
- Own operational metrics and system health, participate in on-call rotations, and identify cost reductions through resource utilization and architectural improvements.
- Implement new AWS Throttling features and improve existing functionality for rate limiting, traffic insights, and service protection.
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, career development, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 2 years of non-internship experience with software design or architecture, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- At least 2 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
- At least 2 years 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 2 years 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: 3+ years covering the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Preferred: experience in software development, Ubuntu, Solaris, or Redshift.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
- Employee assistance program, mental health support, 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 overall Amazon package.
- The position is based in Seattle, Washington.
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.