Software Development Engineer, Amazon

Kuiper

$129.3-223.6k

AWS

TypeScript

Python

Rust

Golang

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

Office located in Sunnyvale, CA

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Open for applications

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

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Open for applications

$129.3-223.6k

AWS

TypeScript

Python

Rust

Golang

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

Office located in Sunnyvale, CA

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We are looking for an engineer with experience in system design of backend services along with knowledge of AWS cloud services infrastructure such as IAM, Lambdas, Cloud watch, API gateways etc
Proficiency in atleast one of TypeScript/Python/GoLang/Rust is an added advantage
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

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world
Deployment and Release Engineering team is responsible for release engineering and deployment service
You will participate in all phases of software development from requirements through implementation and deployment to operations
You will disambiguate high level problem statements & unknowns to design flexible solutions
You will participate in integration and improvement of wide range of software using AWS stack
You will partner with low level embedded software systems and design scalable solutions for software distribution and deployment for satellites

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

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Company

Company benefits

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

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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