Software Development Engineer, Amazon
EC2 Cordite
$129.3-223.6k
Office located in Sunnyvale, 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
$129.3-223.6k
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- We are looking for a passionate fungible software engineer to develop and operate our EC2 local storage services
- You will be hands-on operating the Cloud services to enhance our fleet observability and automate any required remediation
- You will design new service to scale our fleet and enable new instances
- You will also mentor junior engineers and influence product roadmaps for our customers
- Lead projects that require the work of multiple engineers
- Provide a system-wide view and design guidance. Become a key influencer in team strategy and goals
- Set a culture of robust and exemplary software development practices in terms of code organization, clarity, simplicity, error handling, and documentation
- Influence your team’s long-term technical investments by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach
- Design and develop tools to scale on testing, fleet observability and diagnose issues
- Actively coach or mentor multiple other engineers
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.
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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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