Software Development Engineer II, SES
DESCRIPTION
Software Development Engineer-Simple Email Service
Come and build the future with us as we redefine the email communication experience for people and applications!
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is on a mission to revolutionize email experiences for our customers and their end users. We are at the forefront of creating richer, more engaging email functionalities, innovating at every step to provide a seamless, unified experience.
As a Software Development Engineer for Amazon SES, you'll work on backend and customer-facing systems, contributing to the development and improvement of our email services. You'll focus on building reliable and scalable solutions, collaborating with other engineers to solve complex technical challenges, and ensuring our services are highly available and scalable to meet the needs of our global customer base.
As a member of the SES engineering team, your job will allow you to work with customers and other technology leaders at Amazon to translate strategic business needs into features and projects, with an opportunity to participate in strategic planning, contributing to the overall direction of the service.
Leadership and Culture-Building:
In Amazon everyone is a leader. You will contribute to fostering a culture of creativity and openness. Your work will encourage innovation and growth, and you will play a role in mentoring and supporting your colleagues. Knowledge sharing and professional development are important, and you'll be part of a team that values these elements.
On-Call Responsibility:
This position involves on-call responsibilities. We don’t like being paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault-tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we aren’t paged for the same issue twice.
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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About the team
Applications and Higher Level Abstractions (Apps)
AWS Applications and Higher Level Abstractions (Apps) provides horizontal and industry vertical applications for business users with the same on-demand scalability, reliability, pay-as-you-go pricing, and machine learning expertise that drive AWS services. The AWS Applications group includes services such as Amazon Connect (a cost-effective cloud contact center), our End User Computing (including Amazon Workspaces, AppStream, etc.), Marketing Tech (Amazon Pinpoint), and Autonomous Checkout and Biometric Identity Services (Just Walk Out, Amazon One) for retail, sports, travel, and other verticals.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years in professional, non-internship software development.
- 3+ years of experience with a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design. Active involvement in software development within the last 3 years.
- 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem-solving skills.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with large scale web and distributed systems.
- Experience in designing and building fault-tolerant distributed systems.
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