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Amazon Software Engineer, NGDE Foundations in Vancouver, British Columbia
Description
If you are looking for building a largely scalable service that provides information to improve Amazon conversational AI assistant, look nowhere and come join us!
GenAI is a hot topic in tech industry now and can be used in many ways, from helping people to simply works to be done, to assists developers write applications in the ways were never imaginable before. In AWS, we are developing GenAI techs that can help developers to build applications faster and easier, at the same time provide helps on troubleshooting problems when systems go down. To help GenAI techs understand the underlying resources setup of our customers, we need to feed in the resource configurations in customer accounts to understand the relationships and advise the next steps.
We are looking for talented software engineers to join our team building a new service to improve the quality of Amazon Q, our conversational AI assistant. As a member of the NGDE Foundations team within AWS, you will play a key role in developing a brand new service to support resource relationship discovery.
Key job responsibilities
As a engineer on the team, you're a leader and owner. You're in a position to influence our product direction, technical decisions, and team culture.
You'll work directly with our product managers, senior and principal engineers, customers and stakeholders to ensure we build a truly delightful experience for GenAI use cases. We are building a new internal service and you will help establish the foundation for all future development. You will design, implement and deliver significant features of that service to improve the quality of the answers from Amazon Q. You will also help lead, mentor and grow the more junior engineers on the team - ensuring they benefit from your technical and career experience.
A day in the life
On a day-to-day basis, you'll be writing and reviewing code alongside the team. You'll take the lead on designing, implementing and delivering significant features. You'll work with our user experience, product management, and developer advocacy teams to understand the needs to our customers and ensure we build the right things for our customers.
As an software engineer out of the Vancouver office, you’ll work closely with our senior engineers and scientists to build the solutions for optimising the accuracy of the answers provided by different Amazon Q features to resolve end customers problems.
About the team
The NGDE Foundations team own the GenAI based developer experience for customers who want to build, operate, and govern AWS applications. We have a passionate focus on multi-service workflows, not single-service silos. We aim to create intuitive experiences that improve developer flow by smoothing out rough edges and eliminating complexity. NGDE Foundations are based out of the gorgeous trio of PNW cities of Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver B.C.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Vancouver, BC, CAN
Basic Qualifications
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred Qualifications
3+ 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
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
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The base salary for this position ranges from $114,800/year up to $191,800/year. Salary is based on a number of factors 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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.