Key job responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of multi-engineer software projects, owning your team's architectural direction and ensuring systems are well-designed, extensible, performant, and secure.
- Write high-quality, production-ready code that demonstrates best practices in organization, clarity, error handling, and documentation, while evaluating opportunities to integrate generative AI tools to augment productivity.
- Drive technical strategy by balancing short-term delivery needs against long-term maintainability, identifying one-way-door decisions, and advocating for the right solutions across your team and dependent systems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements, clarify assumptions, and resolve conflicting constraints, ensuring alignment on system design tradeoffs including scalability, performance, and security.
- Mentor and coach engineers on your team and across related teams, contribute to recruiting efforts, and establish strong operational practices including alarms, telemetry, runbooks, and retrospective processes.
A day in the life
You start your morning reviewing operational dashboards and addressing any alerts from overnight. By mid-morning, you are deep in a design review with engineers from a partner team, working through interface contracts and dependency tradeoffs. After lunch, you pair with a teammate on a tricky implementation problem, then shift to writing a technical design document for an upcoming project. You close the day in a mentoring session, helping a colleague think through their career growth and next technical challenge.
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
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, CA, Santa Clara - 193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually