6 days ago
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain distributed systems supporting AWS Lambda’s event-driven architecture.
- Connect Lambda with streaming and messaging services including Kafka, SQS, DynamoDB Streams, and Kinesis.
- Build scalable, multi-tenant platforms processing billions of events daily for millions of customers.
- Own features end to end from technical design and implementation through deployment, rollout, and production operations.
- Investigate production incidents, participate in on-call rotations, lead operational reviews, and improve service reliability.
- Contribute to system design, code reviews, mentoring, testing, deployment, monitoring, and team best practices.
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 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 coverage including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, AD&D, flexible spending accounts, employee assistance, and mental health support.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, and access to a medical advice line.
- The role is based in Seattle, Washington, and supports work on multi-region production systems.
- Additional compensation may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units; compensation figures are excluded here.
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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.