SDE — WorkSpaces Apps: Build Secure, Scalable Streaming

Amazon; Sunnyvale (CA); 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 WorkSpaces Applications is hiring a Software Development Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA to design, build, and run secure, scalable services used by millions of customers. You will work across teams, own features end-to-end, and participate in on-call rotations to resolve live issues.

The role emphasizes strong ownership, high-quality code, design reviews, and mentorship, with opportunities to grow within AWS and contribute to high-impact cloud solutions.

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

Responsibilities

• Design, Develop, Deliver and Operate secure, reliable and scalable solutions for customer features as well as internal operational improvements.
• Maintain high standard by delivering high quality in your own work as well as and push for a high bar in code, design and other document reviews for the team.
• Work across team boundaries and help deliver on team projects by showing high bar of ownership, earn trust and deliver results.
• Develop a deep understanding of the system as well as the overall service, understand core customer usage patterns and workflows.
• Be part of the team's oncall rotation and help in directly engaging with customers and stakeholders and drive ticket and issue resolution.
• Demonstrate customer obsession in your work (design, implementation, testing, deployments, operations).
• Develop your communication skills and leverage written and verbal communication to earn trust and drive consensus and required outcomes while collaborating with team mates and across team-boundaries.
• Be closely engaged in team meetings and processes and help continuously identify and drive improvements for the team's efficiency and effectiveness.
• Be a mentor and role model for junior engineers by exemplifying and re-inforcing the Amazon's LPs every day.

Skills

C++

Java

C#

Perl

Object Oriented Design

Education

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

Job description

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications is hiring a Software Development Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA to design, build, and run secure, scalable services used by millions of customers. You will work across teams, own features end-to-end, and participate in on-call rotations to resolve live issues.

The role emphasizes strong ownership, high-quality code, design reviews, and mentorship, with opportunities to grow within AWS and contribute to high-impact cloud solutions.