Amazon

Software Development Engineer, Amazon WorkSpaces Applications

Amazon$143K — $194K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of design or architecture experience for existing systems
  • 1+ year as a software development engineer or similar role
  • 1+ year designing large-scale, distributed software applications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Experience with programming languages such as C#, C++, Java, or Perl
  • 1+ year of Object Oriented Design experience.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and operate scalable solutions for customer features and internal improvements.
  • Deliver high-quality work and promote quality standards within the team.
  • Collaborate across teams to deliver projects with a strong sense of ownership.
  • Understand customer usage patterns and engage in on-call support.
  • Exhibit customer obsession in all phases of development and operations.
  • Enhance communication skills and foster consensus among team members.
  • Identify and drive efficiency improvements within team processes.
  • Mentor junior engineers and exemplify Amazon's Leadership Principles.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage
  • 401(k) matching program
  • Generous paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • EAP and Mental Health Support
  • Medical Advice Line
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
Full Job Description
Do you want to design, build and operate services that are used by millions of customers every day? Are you passionate about architecting highly available and large-scale services?

If the answer is yes, the WorkSpaces Applications team wants to talk with you. We're a rapidly-growing and we're looking for talented and motivated engineers to join the team.

WorkSpaces Applications enables SaaS application streaming and virtual desktop delivery for customers at an incredible scale. We offer a unique opportunity to solve some of the most interesting problems associated with providing secure, reliable, fast and highly scalable solutions. You'll build on top of AWS utilizing industry-leading patterns on EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, Lambda, APIGateway, and more. We strive to deliver innovative solutions and features that enable millions of concurrent streams, snappy click-to-stream app starts, end-to-end streaming latency faster than human perception, lowest possible cost per streaming session, secure and isolated streams for optimal compute and graphics utilization, high fidelity graphics, broad server OS selection, and broad client OS support.

Key job responsibilities

- Design, Develop, Deliver and Operate secure, reliable and scalable solutions for customer features as well as internal operational improvements.

- Maintain high standard by delivering high quality in your own work as well as and push for a high bar in code, design and other document reviews for the team.

- Work across team boundaries and help deliver on team projects by showing high bar of ownership, earn trust and deliver results.

- Develop a deep understanding of the system as well as the overall service, understand core customer usage patterns and workflows. Be part of the team's oncall rotation and help in directly engaging with customers and stakeholders and drive ticket and issue resolution.

- Demonstrate customer obsession in your work (design, implementation, testing, deployments, operations).

- Develop your communication skills and leverage written and verbal communication to earn trust and drive consensus and required outcomes while collaborating with team mates and across team-boundaries.

- Be closely engaged in team meetings and processes and help continuously identify and drive improvements for the team's efficiency and effectiveness.

- Be a mentor and role model for junior engineers by exemplifying and re-inforcing the Amazon's LPs every day.

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

- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience

- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience

- 1+ years 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 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

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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