Full Job Description
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is on a mission to revolutionize email experiences for our customers and their end users. We are at the forefront of creating richer, more engaging email functionalities, innovating at every step to provide a seamless, unified experience.
As a Software Development Engineer for Amazon SES, you'll work on backend and customer-facing systems, contributing to the development and improvement of our email services. You'll focus on building reliable and scalable solutions, collaborating with other engineers to solve complex technical challenges, and ensuring our services are highly available and scalable to meet the needs of our global customer base.
As a member of the SES engineering team, your job will allow you to work with customers and other technology leaders at Amazon to translate strategic business needs into features and projects, with an opportunity to participate in strategic planning, contributing to the overall direction of the service.
Leadership and Culture-Building:
In Amazon everyone is a leader. You will contribute to fostering a culture of creativity and openness. Your work will encourage innovation and growth, and you will play a role in mentoring and supporting your colleagues. Knowledge sharing and professional development are important, and you'll be part of a team that values these elements.
On-Call Responsibility:
This position involves on-call responsibilities. We don't like being paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault-tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we aren't paged for the same issue twice.
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 with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations