Software Development Engineer, Amazon

• We are looking for Software Development Engineers with at least 3 years of experience in distributed systems to join our team
• The ideal candidate will have distributed systems, high-scale software service design and implementation, and agile/continuous software delivery experience
• You are a Software Development Engineer who enjoys owning software services, is customer-centric, and values delivering software with high quality
• 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

• As a Software Development Engineer, do you want to help introduce new shopping experiences and build software services that are always available, and support millions of invocations per second with single digit latency?
• Relationships Platform and Software Services are core to Amazon websites, mobile apps, Alexa, and physical stores serving millions of requests per second at single-digit millisecond latency
• We provide accurate Related product sets to power product discovery and shopping experiences on Amazon.com
• Our team owns highly available distributed micro-services, Machine-learning and rule-based validation systems, data stores containing billions of records, and software systems that make related product sets available across Amazon
• Our team is in NYC
• As a Software Development Engineer (SDE-II), you will work on building new microservices and expanding our core software platform
• This is an opportunity to work on high visibility initiatives across Amazon
• You will work with several senior software development engineer and principal engineers regularly
• We maintain a high bar for operational and software engineering excellence, which helps keep our operational load manageable
• Our software development engineers are customer-focused and detail-oriented
• We are a fun-loving team with a collaborative and supportive culture

• Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
• Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
• Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
• Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
• Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
• Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
• Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
• 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt

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.