Software Development Engineer III, Efficiency & Performance, Alloy, Region Flex Efficiency
Amazon1 day ago
Base Salary
$193k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Solve performance and efficiency problems in large-scale systems.
- Design metrics and measure service performance and cost efficiency across Amazon’s ecosystem.
- Collaborate with service and infrastructure teams to identify inefficiencies and implement scalable solutions.
- Design and develop highly available components and profiling tools.
- Lead software development across product definition, design, coding, testing, deployment, maintenance, and documentation.
- Translate stakeholder and customer needs into scalable system designs accounting for performance, security, and extensibility tradeoffs.
- Resolve operational issues at their root cause and reduce support costs through process improvements.
- Evaluate and responsibly integrate generative AI tools to improve productivity and software quality.
- Mentor and coach engineers through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and technical training.
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years of experience leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- 5+ years of experience with highly scalable systems.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team leader.
- Preferred: 5+ 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.
- Knowledge of system performance, memory management, and parallel computing principles.
Benefits
- 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 are included in the Amazon compensation package.
- The role is located in Sunnyvale, California; no remote or hybrid arrangement is stated.
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.