Software Development Engineer - Build Scalable Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Herndon, VA is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design and build services that scale to serve millions of customers worldwide.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional Amazonians to move ambitious initiatives from concept to production, solving challenging problems in a large distributed environment. The role emphasizes customer obsession, scalable architectures, and owning end-to-end features, with a strong focus on learning and growth and a competitive

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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with experienced cross‑disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
• Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault‑tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high‑quality software.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

C++

Java

C#

Perl

Problem solving

Education

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

Tools

C++

C#

Java

Perl

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Herndon, VA is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design and build services that scale to serve millions of customers worldwide.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional Amazonians to move ambitious initiatives from concept to production, solving challenging problems in a large distributed environment. The role emphasizes customer obsession, scalable architectures, and owning end-to-end features, with a strong focus on learning and growth and a competitive