Software Development Engineer, Amazon

• An ideal candidate has experience delivering new initiatives and be comfortable working closely with Customers
• You should be aware of industry best practices & patterns in all aspects of building, releasing & verifying software
• You should also be familiar with industry trends in programming languages, build tooling, and deployment spaces
• Comfortable working in an environment dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of customers
• Able to think about business opportunities, operational issues, and architectural diagrams in the course of a single conversation
• Intellectually curious, always looking to learn, and a dedication to turning developers into fans
• Someone who makes the team both productive and a fun place to work
• Being excited to learn from others while bringing your own novel capabilities and perspectives
• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Desirable

• Lambda Experience Runtimes is one of the most customer visible and developer commented upon areas of Lambda
• The Language Runtimes team are responsible for the curation, patching and deprecation of all the six Managed Runtimes that Lambda supports such as Python, NodeJS, Java, Ruby, Go, DotNet in addition to the custom runtime plus the associated lambda container images
• You will own and help driving exciting new and existing initiatives in Lambda, while being capable of working on massive scale, high availability, and ambiguous performance problems as well as developer experience problems
• This role will involve identifying and solving problems in different programming language ecosystems, enabling new customer facing functionality, and new programming paradigms in the Serverless ecosystem
• A roll-up-your-sleeves type
• This position involves on-call responsibilities, every builder on Lambda is also an owner
• Nobody likes to get paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are well engineered, fault tolerant and meet a high quality bar before the go into production
• Our customers expect nothing less
• When we do get paged we work together as a team to resolve the root cause of the issue and nobody is left on their own to deal with an operational issue
• If you’re excited by defining how modern and future software applications are built and want to help lead from the innovative edge, we guarantee that your work in our team will be ground-breaking and challenging
• We’re looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers; someone who will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture we’ve been building

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.