Description

Come build the world’s best software builder experience.

Do you find yourself frequently helping other builders learn how to create great software? Are you passionate about the power of an effective software development workflow to fuel innovation and creativity? Do you want to come build an experience driven by a builder-obsessed culture, automation, and tools, that enables the continued evolution of one of the largest most complex software systems in the world? If so, Amazon Software Builder Experience (ASBX) may be the place for you!

ASBX is an internal organization with the singular mission to make Amazon Earth’s Best Employer for Software Builders. At Amazon, our builders create the products and services that help solve problems for our customers. ASBX is an organization of builders who obsess over creating a world-class experience for our peers to enable the massive scale and breadth of businesses across Amazon. We work every day to make the lives of engineers and all technical builders easier by creating efficient processes and effective internal development and operational tools, engineering solutions that enable builders across Amazon to focus on their unique business domains. In ASBX, we’re working on meaningful projects at incredible scale. You’ll develop products that enable builders to develop and operate robust, high-quality software and safely, securely, and reliably deploy it to customers worldwide. You’ll work on products and solutions such as automated build, test, and deployment systems, source control services, cloud developer environments, and systems to manage software security, to name a few. You’ll be at the hub of ongoing builder education and knowledge discovery, and fuel a company-wide culture that makes Amazon a place where all builders feel they belong, can grow, and can build amazing things.

This is a huge opportunity to start something from ground up. It’s day 1 with large ambiguous problems to solve. We’re rethinking how operations run within Amazon from ticketing to operator tooling to data analytics and more!

Our team is looking for a Software Development Engineer to help innovate and build new services from the ground up that will make security and innovation simultaneous for AWS product teams.

We are a team of out-of-the-box thinkers, who iterate quickly, and constantly raise the bar. If you like solving hard problems and doing work with a clear impact for our customers, you'll enjoy being a part of the team.

We offer the opportunity for engineers to help define, design, build, and operate new services from end to end. You will work on a dynamic team, collaborate with leading industry experts and gain experience building security services. Come build with us!

• Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

• 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. 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

• Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

Utility Computing (UC)

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. 10025

Key job responsibilities

A Software Development Engineer on the Mechanic Core team is responsible for the core of the Mechanic product. Mechanic is a multi-tenant centralized service that is the control plan for operator actions across Amazon. As a member of the team you will be expected to lead independent projects from problem definition in partnership with Product, design, implementation and release new capabilities. SDE's are expected to be at home writing code on across the stack in various languages (Phyton, Go, Java, etc..)

A day in the life

The Mechanic Core team seeks to embrace agile development and iterate with the tightest feedback loops possible. We maintain daily contact with our customers and exercise our mandate to reduce operator toil by inventing new customer focused features that enable our colleagues in Amazon to deliver better.

A normal day on our team involves customer interaction, feature development and collaboration. We work as a team, support each other and keep our operational load as low as possible so we can focus on delivery.

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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.