Distributed Systems Engineer for AWS AI Solutions

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle is seeking a software engineer to design and deliver large-scale distributed systems. You will own significant components, collaborate with partner teams, and raise the bar on code quality and production readiness.

Qualifications emphasize real-world experience with high-concurrency architectures, OO design, and multiple languages (C#, C++, Java, Perl). This full-time role offers the chance to impact AWS scale and performance.

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
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• 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

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of significant components of a service scaling from early customers to broad AWS adoption
• Contribute to technical discussions with partner teams — bring data, document tradeoffs, and help the team land on a decision
• Recognize when a one-off solution is the right call versus when a pattern is emerging that deserves a real abstraction, and raise it with the team
• Raise the bar through thorough code reviews and by helping onboard newer engineers to the codebase and team practices
• Contribute to operational excellence: add monitoring and alarming for the features you build, follow through on production readiness, and take ownership during on-call

Skills

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Distributed systems

High concurrency

OO design

SDLC

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle is seeking a software engineer to design and deliver large-scale distributed systems. You will own significant components, collaborate with partner teams, and raise the bar on code quality and production readiness.

Qualifications emphasize real-world experience with high-concurrency architectures, OO design, and multiple languages (C#, C++, Java, Perl). This full-time role offers the chance to impact AWS scale and performance.