Software Development Engineer, Amazon
CloudWatch Synthetics
$129.3-223.6k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$129.3-223.6k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
1001+ employees
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.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
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
- As a part of the AWS CloudWatch Synthetics Monitoring and Observability team, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the health and reliability of services and web applications through external monitoring
- We’re looking for exceptional engineers and problem solvers who are passionate about delivering awesome customer-facing products, and building solutions that solves critical business needs, at AWS scale
- As an experienced developer on our team, you will tackle complex challenges, and work with a highly skilled team to deliver solutions through working backwards from real-world problems
- You will work across the entire distribute service stack, and build on top of native AWS solutions
- You will have opportunities to influence the technical direction of the team
- You will design, build, and deliver new features and services from the ground up, and scale them while advancing your career
- As an experienced Software Development Engineer, your primary role will be to maintain a high standard of design and delivery of software engineering solutions for customers through sound architecture, design, and implementing software solutions for Synthetics monitoring, including highly consistent canary scheduling, fast and lightweight canary runtimes, and canary run triage and analysis
- You will write clean, efficient, and maintainable code in languages such as Java, Go, NodeJS, or Python leveraging AWS serverless and managed services like ECS, Lambda, EC2, APIGateway, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, and new technologies
- During delivery of customer features and improvements you will conduct thorough testing, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests, to ensure the reliability and accuracy of Synthetics monitoring services
- Operationally you will own building and maintaining the infrastructure necessary for canary monitoring, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance under varying workloads
- To deliver on behalf of customers you will continuously collaborate with stakeholders to understand customer requirements and translate them into actionable features and enhancements
- You will be empowered to evaluate and enhance monitoring capabilities based on feedback, industry best practices, and emerging technologies
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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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 values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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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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