Software Development Engineer, Amazon
SecOpsSW
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
- We’re looking for an engineer with expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining software
- 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
- Looking to build and maintain software that helps people
- If you're the type of person who's curiosity can't be satiated; if you're able to quickly grok the intersection between need, possibilities and data and explain it simply to others, please apply
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
- The Security Operations Software (SecOpsSW) team develops and maintains softwares in support of employee and site security and safety around the world
- Our users are who you call when the fire alarm is pulled or your delivery van got rear-ended, and the software you'll work on is used to support Amazon employees during and after incidents small and large
- This role will be expected to help drive the software development process as well as mentor fellow team members
- Understanding the needs of our internal customers and continually aligning your work with your objectives will be critical
- Working in ambiguity, anticipating bottlenecks and escalations, and setting realistic (yet appropriately progressive) expectations are all crucial to the success of our products and customers
- We develop on AWS. We develop mostly using React.js, Node.js, and java with serverless architectures leveraging RDS and DynamoDB
- Refine ambiguous requirements and define system architecture
- Own technical documentation and break down work for the team to implement individual components
- Be responsible for technical problem solving and meeting product objectives
- Developing and driving adoption of engineering best practices
- Write exemplary code in terms of code organization, clarity, simplicity, error handling, and documentation
- Effectively communicate with your team ( and other teams) via design reviews, code review, knowledge transfer sessions
- Mentor other developers
- Own and maintain the systems that you build
- Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement as member of a Scrum team
- Maintain balance between team's delivery speed and building for the future
- The SecOpsSw team builds technologies to protect Amazon employees, assets & information, reduce negative customer experience due to operational losses and fraud, and maximize savings in security operations
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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