Software Dev Engineer II, AWS Quicksight

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in cloud computing seeks a Software Development Engineer to enhance and build foundational components for integrating generative AI capabilities. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in software development and architecture, thriving in a collaborative environment focused on innovation and high-quality solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Help define architecture, own and implement specific components.
• Mentor and support the growth of other developers.
• Contribute to planning, design, implementation, and process improvement.

Skills

Software Development

Problem Solving

Team Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

The AWS Agentic AI organization focuses on providing the scale, flexibility and value that customers and partners require to innovate with confidence and build agents that are efficient and trustworthy. The team enables customers to transform their operations, automate complex processes, and unlock actionable insights from their data assets. The organization stays at the forefront of AI innovation, helping customers navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of Agentic AI, and other emerging technologies to create sustainable competitive advantages.

Amazon QuickSight is bringing new Agentic AI capabilities that power data-driven organizations with unified business intelligence (BI) at hyperscale. With QuickSight, all users can meet varying analytic needs from the same source of truth through modern interactive dashboards, pixel-perfect reports, embedded analytics, and natural language queries. With Amazon Q in QuickSight, business analysts and business users can use natural language to build, discover, and share meaningful insights in seconds, turning insights into impact faster. Next, we are bringing together new Q Business Generative AI capabilities inside of QuickSight to make it the most compelling experience for business users.

In this role with Amazon Q in QuickSight, you will enhance and build new foundational components and user experiences to enable integrating generative AI capabilities with existing features for business users. This role offers wide scope, autonomy, and ownership. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical and leadership experience to work with team of stellar engineers to drive multi-year design and architecture decisions. If this sounds like a product you’ve been working towards and would like to deliver, please contact us today, and let’s talk about how you can be a part of it.

We are looking for an SDE with a strong sense of ownership and a passion for delivering creative solutions for complex problems on an unprecedented scale.

Software Engineers at Amazon partner with the customers, stakeholders, product managers and UX designers to define and execute the product goals. You challenge yourself and others to constantly come up with better solutions. You're a thought leader, but you don't just know how to solve the problem, you prove it by building the solution. Last but not the least; you have a high bar for code quality and passion for design and architecture.


Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will
- Help define architecture, own and implement specific components, and help shape the connectivity roadmap.
- Contribute to defining best practices
- Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement as a member of an autonomous team
- Take responsibility for technical problem-solving, creatively meeting product goals, and developing best practices
- Mentor and support the growth of other developers

About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud

- 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

- 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

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