About the job
Do you want to ensure a delightful shopping experience for millions of Amazon.com customers everyday? The Intelligent Cloud Hosting (ICON) team is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer who is passionate to work on the development of innovative software products which will help boost engineers productivity in Amazon and improving services' posture towards security, availability, efficiency, compliance and maintainability. The team builds systems that apply generative AI and agentic architectures to automate infrastructure operations at scale. We aim to eliminate vast quantities of undifferentiated and often tedious work for Amazon development teams - our opportunity for impact to tens of thousands of developers is enormous.
Responsibilities
1) Work with the team to help drive business decisions
2) Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to drive services optimizations, cost, and security.
3) You provide insightful code reviews and take ownership of outcome.
4) Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables
5) Write high quality distributed system software
6) Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.
Qualifications
Minimum
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Preferred
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent