Software Dev Engineer, Amazon
Global Transportation Technology Services
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in professional, non-internship software development
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Desirable
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Several years of professional software development experience
What the job involves
- As a SDE in GTTS, you will work on challenging engineering problems, processing large datasets, and building products that are performant, scalable, and robust to support critical transportation processes
- You build web applications that delight our customers, and complex data pipelines to process the data that serves them
- We will give you the space to explore new technologies and approaches, and apply them to customer problems
- We build products that solve customer problems and have a direct (financial) impact on the transportation network
- We always work backwards from the customer
- As a SDE, you provide technical leadership at Amazon
- You help establish technical standards and drive Amazon’s overall technical architecture, engineering practices, and methodologies
- You think globally when building systems, ensuring Amazon builds high performing, scalable systems that work well together
- You are hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level designs
- In GTTS we operate the products that we build
- During your on-call rotation, you will provide front-line support if any critical issues arise with the team's products
- Owning end-to-end delivery (from design through release) of major features
- Working with AWS technologies such as Lambda, ECS Fargate, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, EMR
- Building customer-facing applications and APIs
- Building data pipelines using Spark + Scala that process Tb of data per day
- Working with customers to understand the business context of new features
- Contributing to design reviews and code reviews
- Participating in operational support for our products by joining a regular on-call rotation
- Driving reliability and process improvements
- Participating in regular hackathons to bring new ideas to GTTS
Salary benchmarks
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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