27 days ago
Minneapolis, MN, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain innovative software solutions for AWS network services.
- Write high-quality distributed system software and develop automation for software-defined networks.
- Improve service performance, durability, cost, security, reliability, and fault tolerance.
- Collaborate with network, systems, and software engineering teams to deploy and sustain networking tools and platforms.
- Develop tooling for automated builds, configuration deployment, capacity scaling, traffic visibility, and event mitigation.
- Use operational data to measure success, prevent recurring faults, and resolve customer-impacting issues.
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and manage customer problems under pressure.
- Contribute to documentation, code reviews, knowledge sharing, mentoring, and cross-team solution development.
- Travel to data center, network, Amazon, or customer sites as needed.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 2 years of 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 of experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- At least 1 year of Object-Oriented Design experience.
- Experience programming in at least one software programming language.
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Preferred: at least 3 years covering the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, AD&D, employee assistance, mental health support, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units may be included in the compensation package.
- The role has a 24x7 on-call rotation, typically one week every two months, with the ability to drive to the workplace for critical events and travel to sites as needed.
- AWS provides mentorship, knowledge sharing, career-development resources, inclusive team programs, and work-life flexibility.
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.