Software Development Engineer, Amazon Central Sourcing

Saved job description

This role is for fungible software development engineers in the Amazon Ads, LEO, Devices, and Entertainment Teams.

Some things about us:

-Motivated, collaborative team: Join a team of passionate engineers who support each other, share knowledge freely, and celebrate wins together.

-Greenfield opportunity: We're building from the ground up, giving you the chance to shape architecture, tooling, and culture from day one.

-World-changing impact: Your work will directly shape how hundreds of millions of customers interact every day.

Key job responsibilities

-Design and implement highly available, scalable cloud services in Java.

-Build and operate Tier-1 services at massive scale

-Solve novel and complex distributed systems challenges — from low-latency communication to fault-tolerant architectures

-Leverage generative AI extensively in your day-to-day development workflow to accelerate delivery and improve code quality

-Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams across Amazon to define technical direction and deliver customer-facing features

-Contribute to a culture of operational excellence, including on-call support, monitoring, and continuous improvement

Requirements: - 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