Software Development Engineer, Amazon QuickSight

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative organization within a leading tech company is seeking a Software Development Engineer to enhance and build foundational components for business intelligence solutions. This role emphasizes autonomy and ownership, requiring a passion for delivering creative solutions at scale. Ideal candidates will possess deep technical expertise and leadership qualities, collaborating with a stellar team to drive impactful design and architecture decisions. Join a vibrant culture that values mentorship, diversity, and work-life balance, and contribute to revolutionizing workplace productivity through cutting-edge technology.

Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Health Insurance

Retirement Plan

Employee Discounts

Mentorship Programs

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Translate requirements into software solutions.
• Code and test system components.
• Ensure end-to-end code quality and system performance.

Skills

Software Development

Design Patterns

System Architecture

Coding Standards

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Source Control Management

Testing Tools

Job description

Software Development Engineer, Amazon QuickSight

Q for Business within AWS is an innovative organization within Amazon dedicated to leveraging state-of-the-art technology to drive business intelligence and data-driven decision making across the company. We are focused on revolutionizing workplace productivity through innovative generative AI technology. Generative AI is playing an important role in improving customer experience in several domains such as contact centers, media and entertainment, and healthcare.

Amazon QuickSight powers 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
- Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture/design/working software solutions.
- Code and test system components; participate in code and design reviews.
- Demonstrate ownership of end-to-end code quality, system tests, functional tests, and integration.
- Partner/Collaborate across teams/roles to deliver results.
- Be responsible for overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance.

About the team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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.

About 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 (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

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.

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.

- 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

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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.