Software Development Engineer II, Efficiency & Performance, Alloy, Region Flex Efficiency
Amazon4 days ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$165k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Solve performance and efficiency problems in large-scale distributed systems.
- Design metrics and measure service performance and cost efficiency across Amazon’s ecosystem.
- Collaborate with service teams to identify inefficiencies and implement scalable solutions.
- Design and develop highly available software components and profiling tools.
- Own software development across product definition, design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Translate customer and stakeholder needs into scalable system designs with performance, security, and extensibility tradeoffs.
- Identify operational issues at their root cause and improve team operations while reducing support costs.
- Mentor and coach engineers through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and training.
Requirements
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience involving design patterns, reliability, and scaling of new and existing systems.
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
- 1+ years of experience developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- 1+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
- 1+ years of programming in a modern language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design.
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Preferred: 3+ years of full software development lifecycle experience.
- Preferred: knowledge of system performance, memory management, and parallel computing principles.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $165,200.00-$223,600.00 annually in Sunnyvale, California, plus sign-on payments and restricted stock units.
- Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Work location: Sunnyvale, California.
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.