Do you want to be part of a team building a brand-new AWS service from the
ground up? If yes, come join Amazon Location (https://location.aws.com/). With
Amazon Location, customers can easily add capabilities such as location based
capabilities (maps, routes, places and more) to applications. Amazon Location
provides cost-effective location-based services using high-quality data.
Key job responsibilities
Your team members, Sr. SDEs and managers will support you in your onboarding to
operating a service at AWS, and will genuinely be happy to jump in and help.
We are looking for a software engineer to drive feature development for Amazon
Location Service. You will take the lead on end to end full stack design,
development of our new services. You will deliver a best in class customer
experience and operate the service to the highest standards.
We seek candidates with Business Intelligence engineering experience to leverage
proven skills in data analysis, visualization, and insights generation.
We seek candidate who will be part of an on-call rotation, typically for one
week every three months.
A day in the life
Start your day, grab a coffee (or tea), say hi to your team, participate in the
daily standup, participate in a design review meeting, have a one-on-one with
one of your engineers, work on your team's roadmap, guide the operational review
meeting to monitor the health of the service.
About the team
Our team is passionate about location, privacy, and building modern serverless
applications. We believe that location is a concept that people need to bring to
and embed within their applications. We want to provide an easy way for AWS
customers to do this while not comprising on privacy. And we want to do all this
while building things in a modern serverless way on the AWS cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture:
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our
culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000
employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings,
and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on
Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s
culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which
remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn
trust.
Work/Life Balance:
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours
you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings
energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between
your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and
fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find
your own balance between your work and personal lives.
Mentorship & Career Growth:
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of
experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates
knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring
and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and
strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into
a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the
future.
