Job Information
Amazon Senior Software Development Engineer, Region Flexibility Engineering in Seattle, Washington
Description
The Regional Flexibility Engineering (RFE) organization supports the rapid global expansion of Amazon's infrastructure. Our projects support Amazon businesses like Stores, Alexa, Kindle, and Prime Video. We drive adoption of ever-evolving and cutting-edge AWS and non-AWS technologies, and work closely with AWS teams to improve AWS public offerings. Our organization focuses on robust and scalable solutions, simple to use, and delivered with engineering best practices. We leverage and build foundational infrastructure capabilities, tools, and datasets that enable Amazon teams to delight our customers. With millions of people using Amazon’s products every day, we appreciate the importance of making our solutions “just work”.
Key job responsibilities
Regional Flexibility Engineering is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer passionate about service-oriented architectures that wants to support Amazon’s businesses innovate quickly at scale. Come join us if you enjoy developing the best, designing and building highly distributed systems that scale. You will solve algorithmically complex problems, work on front end / back end services that scale, and delight thousands of Amazon engineers with the exceptional customer experiences that you build. You will solve intriguing problems designing and building for Amazon’s scale. With our projects spanning across all of Amazon Stores, Digital and Others (SDO) businesses, you will work with AWS technologies and advise SDO teams how to setup required infrastructure. As an innovator who embraces new technology, you will directly influence product design and you will be empowered to choose the highly scalable and available technology to solve complex problems. You will be supported by a large and experienced Principal Engineering community in your work with cross-cutting teams and technologies. Come help us create and evolve the abstractions that make developing software at Amazon powerful and flexible.
A day in the life
Advise the team's technical direction and provide feedback on their designs
Build software solutions to solve complex problems at scale
Create prototypes that assist in 2-way door decisions
Work with partner teams across the organization to ensure software collaboration
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Preferred Qualifications
5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.