Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Utility Computing
$129.3-223.7k
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$129.3-223.7k
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for software development engineers that are passionate about creating application software that underpin the fabric of the EC2 cloud
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- Come build the next generation of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) @ AWS!
- We are engaged in every part of the software development lifecycle from defining new features to testing them
- On a typical day, our engineers use everything from modern day programming languages like Java/Rust/etc for application development, Ruby/Python/etc for automation, MySQL/Redis/JournalDB/RocksDB/etc. for high performance, low latency backends and a host of internal to Amazon tools
- We don’t expect you to be an expert in, or necessarily even be familiar with these technologies listed, but we do expect you to be excited to learn about them!
- In this role, you’ll build software that scales to new heights. With cloud adoption speeding up, you will be challenged with interesting and complex problems to grow our services to meet the ever-increasing customer requirements
- You’ll apply your creative and critical problem-solving skills to develop and run multi-tenant services at a massive scale
- Above all, you will care deeply about both delighting customers and building high-quality software without sacrificing one for the other
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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