Software Dev Engineer II, AWS Transform

Amazon.com; Pessac; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Technological Services SAS is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer II for the AWS Transform Mainframe team. You will design, build, and maintain secure, scalable features to help customers modernize legacy workloads, using Generative AI to accelerate delivery and quality.

You will own features from design through production, mentor newer team members, participate in reviews, and collaborate across teams time zones to improve operational excellence and customer outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, IT or equivalent.
• Professional software development experience (non-internship).
• Proficiency in Java, Python, C++, or C# with object-oriented design.
• Experience designing or architecting scalable systems; familiarity with legacy or mainframe modernization.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain software components in a fast-changing environment.
• Follow development and release processes, including security and compliance requirements.
• Troubleshoot problems and contribute to operational activities to keep services stable.
• Participate in code and design reviews to ensure quality and scalability.
• Automate development, testing and operations tasks using internal tools and GenAI.
• Onboard and mentor teammates on how the software is built and operated.

Skills

Java

Python

C++

C#

OO Design

Software Development

System Design

Mainframe Modernization

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

COBOL

JCL

PL/I

Git

Job description

Job ID: 10601149 | Amazon Technological Services SAS

AWS Transform Mainframe is part of the Agentic AI organization. Our team owns services and products that help customers modernize their legacy applications, helping AWS customers move their business-critical workloads from obsolete and old technologies to AWS. Our solutions are made of different products covering different needs: AWS Transform mainframe for refactor (for source code analysis, tests capture, projects follow-up, etc.), Velocity (for source code transformation), CompareTool (for functional equivalence testing), DataMigrator (for data and schema conversion), AWS Transform Reimagine (for assessment and business driven modernization), and many more.

AWS Transform Mainframe works closely with AWS Professional Service teams as well as external customers and partners who run modernization projects. The AWS Transform Mainframe services have a key role in the cloud adoption of AWS' biggest customers.

A Software Development Engineer (SDE II) in AWS Transform Mainframe builds highly innovative, secure and scalable features that help AWS customers modernize their business-critical workloads. They take ownership of features and components from design to production, working in a team that is scaling fast with strong market demand on Refactoring projects.

An SDE II in AWS Transform Mainframe works on problems that are often ambiguous. They break them into well-scoped tasks and deliver with limited guidance. They make sound design choices within their components, write code that is secure, maintainable, well tested and easy for others to work with, and they follow and improve the team's engineering best practices (Operational Excellence, Security, Quality).

An SDE II in AWS Transform Mainframe uses Generative AI to build innovative solutions for customers and to speed up delivery while raising quality. They keep learning new technologies, work closely with customers, partners and peers across teams and time zones, and understand how their work affects the business.

They help onboard and mentor newer team members, take part in code and design reviews, and share their knowledge with the team.

AWS Transform Mainframe is a part of AWS Utility Computing (UC) which provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain software components and features, working in a fast-changing environment with strong cross-team collaboration.
• Follow the team's development and release processes, including security and compliance requirements, and balance quality against committed deadlines.
• Troubleshoot and fix technical problems, and contribute to operational activities (on-call, root-cause analysis, permanent fixes) to keep the service stable and performant.
• Take part in code and design reviews, and make sure your work meets the team's bar for code quality, scalability and operational excellence.
• Automate development, testing and operations tasks, and propose improvements that use internal tools, new technologies and GenAI.
• Help onboard and mentor teammates on how the team's software is built and operated.
• Communicate clearly and on time with peers and management about progress, trade-offs and blockers, and elevate when needed.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

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Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, IT or equivalent
• Experience in professional, non-internship software development
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, Python, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• Experience designing or architecting new and existing systems (design patterns, reliability and scaling)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
• Experience with the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build, testing and operations
• Experience with legacy or mainframe technologies (COBOL, PL/I, JCL) or application modernization

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