4 days ago
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, launch, and operate production services end to end, including authoring design documents and making and defending technical trade-offs.
- Build high-throughput distributed systems and low-latency query and serving layers under real availability and latency commitments.
- Develop real-time detection and alerting systems that explain what changed and why it matters.
- Build rules, decision, and optimization engines that automate manual workflows and return results within fixed time budgets.
- Develop APIs used by other services and React web applications for operators and capacity planners.
- Build agentic systems that investigate problems, determine causes, recommend actions, and increasingly take action autonomously.
- Own monitoring, alarming, recovery paths, cross-service testing, root-cause analysis, and operational reliability.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, demos, stand-ups, documentation, security reviews, and an on-call rotation typically one week every two months.
- Collaborate with software engineers, scientists, capacity planners, operators, partner service teams, and leadership.
- Mentor others and work alongside senior and principal engineers.
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 of new and existing systems.
- 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 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 life cycle 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, life and AD&D insurance, and supplemental life plan options.
- Employee assistance, 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 may be included in the Amazon compensation package.
- Seattle-based position in Seattle, Washington.
- On-call responsibility is typically one week every two months.
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.