Description

Do you want to solve business challenges through innovative technology? Do you enjoy working on cutting-edge, scalable services technology in a team environment? Do you like working on industry-defining projects that move the needle?

At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. The focus we have on our customers is why we are one of the world’s most beloved brands – customer obsession is part of our company DNA. Our Software Development Engineers (SDEs) use cutting-edge technology to solve complex problems and get to see the impact of their work first-hand.

The challenges SDEs solve for at Amazon are big and influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years. If this sounds interesting to you, apply and come chart your own path at Amazon.

Key job responsibilities

• You solve difficult engineering problems with elegant and practical code.

• You take ownership, discussing and delivering on deep technical details with other engineers on the team and across partner teams, collaborating with them to solve challenging problems.

• You create a plans, communicate requirements, negotiate priorities, and clarify what success looks like.

• You define, deliver, and/or implement a variety of high quality, correct, customer focused technical solutions.

• You provide clear and concise verbal and written communication.

• You facilitate the dialogue, asking productive questions, providing recommendations, and fostering a shared understanding to identify risks and meet business needs.

• You participate in reviews of your peers’ work and provide useful and actionable input when submitted.

• You raise the bar on operational excellence while meeting/exceeding system SLAs (e.g. Availability, Latency)

A day in the life

In our team, you will indulge your love of diving deep into complex technical problems, driving incremental system optimizations and raising the bar for operational excellence and development practices. We will look to you to help lift the skills and expertise of those around you.

About the team

The AMC Core Experience team will be a great fit for you if you’re looking for a space that is as technical as it is uncharted - our infrastructure needs to be built from the ground up and we need help not only dreaming it but also making it a reality. Our short-term focus is to enable self-serve onboarding for AMC customers. This means that not only will there be opportunity to dive deep into technical matters, zoom out to participate in design decisions and overall strategy, but also ample choice in variety; as soon as we ship one application we’ll be moving on to another to solve problems. Maximizing customer delight will be our main guiding principle and so meeting with customers early and often to ensure all solutions solve the right problems, in the right way, is a core expectation for each member of AMC Core Experience.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Boulder, CO, USA

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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.