Software Development Engineer, AWS Game Tech

As part of the AWS Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon's unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We are looking for talented engineers to join our team and help us build a new service that will transform and disrupt an entire industry. As an engineer in the AWS Game Tech organization, you will have significant impact on the design and architecture of the service. You will lead and own critical components from inception to deployment.

Key responsibilities include:

• Owning design, development, test, deployment, and operation of highly available, secure systems
• Ensuring sanity of architecture, operational excellence, and quality, delivering results on time
• Working closely with other teams across AWS and Amazon to deliver features that require cross-team leadership
• Obsessing over simplifying enterprise scale commerce complexity
• Mentoring other engineers and interns on the team
• Regularly diving into architecture, code, test plans, project plans, deployments, and operations to drive excellence

On a typical day, you might:

• Design and implement new features and services for customers
• Work with principal engineers and developers across teams to decide on an architectural approach for a new product or feature
• Provide support, guidance, and coaching to your team to grow their skills, overcome obstacles, and help them tackle new challenges
• Tackle systematic problems and improve how your team operates
• Advise managers and senior leaders on options to deliver customer requests and the tradeoffs involved

Amazon values diverse experiences and work-life harmony. We offer flexible work hours and arrangements, employee-led affinity groups, ongoing events and learning experiences, mentorship, and career growth opportunities.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets, with base pay ranging from $129,300/year to $223,600/year, depending on location and other factors. We also offer equity, sign-on payments, and a full range of benefits.