The Amazon Management Experiences (AMX) team, comprising 1,400+ employees,
builds innovative platforms that help Amazonians build rewarding careers. We
develop and maintain key solutions including Ivy for talent management, Forte
for evaluation processes, and Embark for personalized onboarding. Our team
combines psychology and technology to create tools that drive actionable
insights for managers and leaders.
Use your expert technical skills and experience to deliver state of the art
employee listening technology!
Our vision is to deliver an employee listening system that helps build a
workplace where Amazonians can invent and deliver on behalf of customers. We put
employee listening data, metrics, and insights in the right places to drive high
quality, high velocity, high impact decisions.
As a Software Development Engineer you will have technical ownership of the
development of critical parts of this system. You will create innovative
employee listening technology at Amazon scale. You'll join a talented and nimble
team of engineers and create ways to streamline delivery. Successful candidates
will be strong SDEs who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a
consistent track record of delivery.
You will drive architectural and design choices, invent new features, develop
distributed services, and build a scalable, employee listening product. We have
a team culture that encourages innovation and we expect developers and
management alike to take a high level of ownership for the product
In this role you will:
- Work with technical leaders across the org to deliver large distributed
projects to delight our customers
- Write high-quality, efficient, testable code
- Build highly available, secure systems
- Find out what it takes to engineer systems for "Amazon Scale"
- Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry
- Own and operate the systems that you build
- Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, release, operations,
and process improvement as a member of the team
- Get firsthand experience engineering with AWS services such as Glue, Athena,
Lambda, S3, DynamoDB and others
We offer opportunities for builders to build and make history!
Key job responsibilities
• Design and implement enterprise-scale software solutions that ensure optimal
performance and reliability
• Drive technical architecture decisions and system design, focusing on
scalability, reliability, and performance of distributed services
• Lead end-to-end delivery of technical solutions, including design,
implementation, and verification using standard software engineering
methodologies
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, conduct
design reviews, and ensure successful delivery of solutions
• Develop and maintain robust frameworks, implementing security controls and
compliant access patterns
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to improving team practices and
standards
A day in the life
Your typical day involves architecting and building robust solutions that power
critical business initiatives. You'll participate in technical design
discussions, write and review code, and optimize existing solutions for
performance and reliability. You'll dive deep into production issues, implement
solutions that enhance system stability, and build new capabilities into our
platforms. Cross-team collaboration is key, as you'll work closely with various
teams to maintain system requirements and optimize workflows.
Work/Life Balance: We value work-life harmony and offer flexibility in working
hours. While the position involves on-call responsibilities (typically one week
every two months), we work to ensure our systems are fault tolerant and
continuously improve our infrastructure to minimize disruptions.
About the team
Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including:
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
• Maternity and Parental Leave Options
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401(k) Plan
If you're passionate about solving complex technical challenges at scale and
want to make an impact on millions of customers worldwide, we'd love to hear
from you. 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: - Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards,
code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and
operations experience
- 2+ years of big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive,
Lucene/SOLR or Storm/Samza experience
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis
of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our
customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or
adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the
interview or onboarding process, please visit
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