Software Development Engineer II, Amazon

Join Amazon's Intelligent Cloud Hosting (ICON) team as a Software Development Engineer II, where you'll be at the forefront of managing Amazon's global web infrastructure. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to work on tier-1, multi-tenant systems that power Amazon's worldwide marketplaces, Kindle, Alexa, and Amazon Video platforms. You'll be part of a diverse international team responsible for hosting Amazon's websites and ensuring optimal operational quality, security, and availability.

The position involves creating and maintaining strategic developer productivity tools built on AWS technology, working with orchestration, predictive analytics, monitoring, and automated repair systems. You'll be solving complex, mission-critical compute and operation problems, with development cycles measured in weeks rather than years.

As an SDE II, you'll be responsible for the routing layer that connects traffic at low latency and protects web services against security threats. The team manages over 120 Tier-1 services, abstracting and centralizing infrastructure management for teams across Amazon's Worldwide Stores organization.

This role offers unique technical challenges at unprecedented scale, where your decisions and implementations directly impact millions of customers globally. You'll work in an agile environment, collaborating with innovative engineers and product managers to deliver high-quality solutions that maintain Amazon's position as a leader in e-commerce and cloud technology.

The ideal candidate will bring strong software development experience, system design capabilities, and a passion for creating new products and services from scratch. This is an excellent opportunity for engineers who thrive in an environment of ownership, innovation, and technical excellence.