Key job responsibilities
• You design, implement, and deploy software components.
• You have a solid understanding of design approaches (and how to best use them).
• You are able to work independently and with your team to deliver software successfully.
• Your work is consistently of a high quality and incorporates best practices.
• You focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions, taking on projects that improve your team’s software, making it better and easier to maintain.
• You are able to confidently train new team-mates about your customers, what your team’s software does, how it is constructed, tested, operates, and how it fits into the bigger picture.

A day in the life
SDE-II engineers are responsible for maintaining and improving code while also responding to operational issues involving APIs and workflow systems owned by our team.
SDE-II engineers are expected to work with and influence product, design and customer teams that interact with the tooling through collaboration on technical designs, identifying new business needs and operational problem solving. They are expected to act as technical leaders on projects, ensure high quality, and mentor junior members of the team.


About the team
Our services are engineered for high availability, maximum reach, and cost savings that we can pass on to customers. We enable the world to watch video instantly, from any device, whether on the road or from the comfort of a living room sofa. We operate in over 250 countries and territories and we aspire to grow — a lot.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 1+ 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

- Graduate degree in a related technical field
- Experience with critical, 24x7 systems
- Experience with high throughput, multi-threaded systems
- Fluency in more than one programming language (e.g. Java, C++, Go, Kotlin, Clojure, Scala, Ruby, Python, Perl)
- Knowledge of functional architecture a plus
- Experience with AWS services highly desirable
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role