SDE II, Digital Acceleration
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Digital Acceleration powers ordering, subscriptions, and device management for Prime, Amazon Video, Music, Audible, Alexa, and Kindle, amongst other digital businesses. We process billions of digital purchases every year and enable our digital businesses to grow their businesses worldwide. We are on a mission to be earth's best provider of one-time and recurring digital commerce, delivering a seamless and enjoyable post-purchase customer experience.
Work hard. Have fun. Make history.
We are seeking an experienced software development engineer. The ideal candidate is an innovative self-starter who is looking for an opportunity to be both an individual contributor and technical lead. You will be working across multiple organizations and services within Amazon to deliver the unique experience that we are creating.
To be successful you need to be flexible, comfortable operating with ambiguity and willing to develop quick proof of concepts. You will drive the technology forward and operate at all levels, diving deep into the details and provide key input into the product.
Key job responsibilities
SDEs at Amazon are able to understand software internals, debug code, automate repetitive tasks, and implement new tools and frameworks needed to streamline our quality process. You will work directly with both engineering and product teams to understand project features, review technical designs, and implement automated tools that help deliver quality features with efficiency.
As an SDE, you will be part of a team that is focused on building tooling and solutions that enables hundreds of engineers to build and ship digital experiences faster and with high-quality. It provides immense opportunity to design and develop wide-reaching tools. It combines the "building" aspect of software design engineering with the "breaking" aspect of software test engineering. You’ll be writing code that automatically verifies the quality of the product.
A day in the life
In this role, you
Design and develop tools which will help Developers/Testers.
Collaborating with engineering and product teams to identify and prioritize opportunities for automation.
Participating in design and code inspections.
A successful candidate must have a solid history of delivering results, obsession with quality, be detail oriented, a team player, and have the ability to work in a fast-paced start-up like environment
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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