Amazon

Software Development Engineer II, EC2 Core Platform

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4 days ago
Seattle, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$144k - $194k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable software systems and services.
  • Own medium-to-large features or components from ambiguous problem definition through delivery.
  • Write high-quality code, technical documentation, and design documents.
  • Participate in design reviews and code reviews while improving engineering quality and consistency.
  • Monitor service health, respond to operational events, participate in on-call, and reduce operational load through automation and root-cause fixes.
  • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and partner teams to define technical approaches and manage dependencies.
  • Improve CI/CD, testing, observability, performance, and security practices while reducing technical debt.
  • Mentor junior engineers, including SDE I engineers and interns, and contribute to an inclusive team culture.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • At least 2 years of non-internship design or architecture experience involving design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • At least 1 year of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
  • At least 1 year of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and 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 lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.

Benefits

  • Amazon offers health insurance, life and AD&D insurance, an employee assistance program, mental health support, a medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

Tech Stack

C#C++JavaPerl

Categories

Amazon

About Amazon

10,000+ employees

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.

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