Software Development Engineer II, Intelligent Cloud Hosting (ICON)

Amazon.com, Inc.; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's Intelligent Cloud Hosting (ICON) team seeks a Software Development Engineer to help design and deliver next‑generation managed hosting platform technologies. You will influence team strategy, collaborate with multiple stakeholders, and build innovative software to improve security, availability, and maintainability across Amazon’s services.

You will drive architecture decisions, participate in code reviews, and deliver high-quality distributed systems in an agile startup‑like

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience (patterns, reliability, scaling).
• Experience coding in at least one programming language.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and delivery of large-scale services.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to meet the needs of the Amazon e-Commerce platform.
• Provide insightful code reviews and own outcomes.
• Write high-quality distributed system software following best practices.
• Work in an agile environment focusing on high-impact work.

Skills

Distributed systems

Design patterns

Programming languages

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Job description

Do you want to ensure a delightful shopping experience for millions of Amazon.com ( http://amazon.com/) customers everyday? The Intelligent Cloud Hosting (ICON) team is looking for a 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. 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.

Key job responsibilities

As a Software Development Engineer in the ICON team, you will working on the development of next generation managed hosting platform technologies. You will lead the design, implementation, and successful delivery of large-scale services. You will be influencing your team’s technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach. You will work side-by-side and collaborate with strategic technical stakeholders and customers to develop new products that meet the needs of the Amazon e-Commerce platform. You will partner with multiple teams to come up with novel ways to make our retail website more secure and available for Amazon customers. You will solve complex yet fun challenges by looking at the big picture while diving deep.

A day in the life

As a Software Development Engineer on this team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition, vision, design, roadmap and development of innovative software products which will help boost engineers productivity in Amazon, for improving services’ posture towards security, availability, efficiency, compliance and maintainability.

• Work with the team to help drive business decisions
• Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to drive services optimizations, cost, and security.
• You provide insightful code reviews and take ownership of outcome.
• Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables
• Write high quality distributed system software
• Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.

About the team

The ICON team hosts Amazon websites and backend platform services that power the customer experience. We abstract and centralize the Infrastructure management from service teams, bring agility to business processes, and manage infrastructure of 100s of Tier-1 services. The ICON team is located within the Intelligent Control (ICC) organization who owns connecting our worldwide websites and other consumer experiences such as Kindle, Amazon Video, and Alexa to the internet, as well as ensuring the highest level of availability, security and privacy of the web services that power the experience we deliver to our customers worldwide.

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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Veterans, military spouses, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.