Software Development Engineer (Level 5), AWS Field Experience (AFX)

Software Development Engineer (Level 5), AWS Field Experience (AFX)

Job ID: 2813241 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

The Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Event tech team is looking for a Software Development Engineer (SDE) with a passion for working on cutting edge technology, obsesses over bar raising experiences for customers, and thrives on the challenge of building something new that will operate at world-wide scale to join our fast paced team. In this role, you will be responsible for implementing modern, creative, and innovative data experiences across a breadth of customer facing web apps, our data warehouse for reporting, and integration with third party applications.

If you are passionate about building state-of-the-art web applications and services that focus on simplicity, innovation, performance, consider applying for this role! Your work will have high visibility across AWS internally, and the global AWS community of developers and users.

In this position, we are looking for an engineer with deep service orientated expertise and experienced with variety of technologies. We are looking for someone who understands developing innovative services in the cloud, leveraging the best technologies AWS has to offer, and can build software. We need someone who is motivated to tackle ambiguous situations with technologies to rapidly produce prototypes. You will outline paths from prototype to product. You will need to contribute to the professional development of colleagues through mentoring, improving their technical knowledge and the engineering practices on your team. You have an eye towards quality and insist on the highest standards.

- Be heavily involved with design and product teams to understand needs, propose features, create early prototypes, and transform them into exciting experiences.
- Know how to integrate information from a large number of services.
- Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews.
- Deep-dive into client or server systems to optimize for performance, maintainability, extensibility, and more as needed.
- Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automations and processes that are used by the entire services team for development.
- Mentor team members to promote engineering excellence.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

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 with AWS technologies like Appsync, DynamoDB, Lambda, EventBridge, Amazon OpenSearch, CloudWatch and others
- Experience with Event based architecture, search and analyze unstructured and semi-structured data, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD.

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