Software Development Engineer II, Amazon

Global technology company leading in e-commerce, cloud computing, and digital streaming services.
Cloud
Mid-Level Software Engineer
In-Person
3+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS · E-Commerce

Description For 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 exciting opportunity to work on mission-critical systems that power Amazon's worldwide marketplaces, Kindle, Alexa, and Amazon Video platforms.

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 part of a diverse international team that's obsessed with operational quality, security, cost reduction, and maintaining high availability for the world's largest e-commerce infrastructure.

As an SDE II, you'll tackle complex technical challenges unique to Amazon's massive scale, working on tier-1, multi-tenant systems that require exceptional performance and reliability. The role involves designing and implementing solutions that manage traffic flow through Amazon's highly distributed architecture, ensuring optimal customer experience worldwide.

The team operates over 120+ Tier-1 services and owns the routing layer that protects web services against malicious attacks while maintaining low latency. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on systems used by millions of customers globally, working in an environment where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years.

If you're passionate about large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and creating innovative solutions that directly impact millions of users, this role offers the perfect blend of technical challenges and growth opportunities. You'll work alongside talented engineers and product managers in an agile environment, contributing to fundamental technological advancements at Amazon.

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Responsibilities For Software Development Engineer II, Amazon

  • Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment
  • Lead fundamental changes in the organization
  • Collaborate with engineers and product managers to refine project scope
  • Design and code solutions for broadly defined problems
  • Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software
  • Manage and optimize infrastructure for Amazon's worldwide websites
  • Work on tier-1, multi-tenant, high performance systems
  • Create and update strategic developer productivity tools

Requirements For Software Development Engineer II, Amazon

  • 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
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  • Experience with design patterns, reliability and scaling of systems

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