19 days ago
Bellevue, WA, USA +2 moreMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and operate large-scale distributed control-plane components while considering failure modes, multi-tenant isolation, and blast radius.
- Simplify systems by consolidating abstractions, removing dead code, reducing configuration sprawl, and challenging unnecessary complexity.
- Own systems end to end, participate in incident response and root-cause analyses, and drive improvements that reduce cost and maintenance.
- Solve problems in cluster orchestration, capacity provisioning, lifecycle workflows, multi-tenant infrastructure, query routing, and operational tooling.
- Use AI coding assistants and GenAI tools throughout design, coding, testing, review, debugging, and operations while validating generated output.
- Write robust, efficient, and maintainable software in Java, Rust, Python, or Go.
- Partner with senior engineers to turn ambiguous requirements into concrete deliverables and prototype, test, and validate solutions.
- Contribute upstream to OpenSearch and Apache Lucene.
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 applications, tools, systems, or 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
- Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
- Employee assistance and mental health support, a 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 package.
- The listed base salary ranges vary by location, including Santa Clara, Austin, and Bellevue.
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.