2 months ago
Boston, MA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and write software features and performance optimizations for AWS Transfer Family.
- Analyze data to inform design decisions and measure the effectiveness of changes.
- Debug complex issues in distributed systems.
- Review technical proposals and code from team members and partner teams.
- Contribute to large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services.
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 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 lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent and experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Kiro, Cursor, Claude Code, or GitHub Copilot.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
- Employee assistance and 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 Boston, Massachusetts, 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.