2 months ago
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build Amazon Lightsail distributed-system features across backend services and frontend experiences.
- Integrate Lightsail capabilities with Amazon EC2, Amazon Route 53, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon SQS.
- Own service operational health, identify production root causes, and drive permanent fixes for reliable performance.
- Participate in design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and promote clean, maintainable code.
- Work across the full software development lifecycle, including customer discovery, design, implementation, testing, deployment, operations, and documentation.
- Evaluate new technologies and generative artificial intelligence tools to improve productivity and solution quality.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 2 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
- At least 2 years of non-internship design or architecture experience involving design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- 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, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, and AD&D coverage.
- Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Compensation includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units, with final compensation determined by experience, qualifications, and location.
- Position is based in Seattle, Washington, with the listed annual base salary range.
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.