Software Development Engineer II — Core Developer Tools

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a Software Development Engineer to build developer tools used by Amazon engineers. This language experience focus shapes compiler support, libraries, and OSS contributions across the company.

You will collaborate with teams to understand pain points, maintain build infra, and contribute to distributed and multi-threaded software platforms in a highly technical environment.

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

• You will design and build developer tools that Amazon engineers use every day.
• You will work with the languages and libraries that power Amazon's services, making them easier to use and more reliable.
• You will help maintain our build tools, compilers, libraries and frameworks.
• You will shape how OSS upstream projects are developing, including contributing to them directly yourself.
• You will collaborate with engineers across Amazon to understand their pain points and build tools, libraries and frameworks that address them.
• You will write code, review code from teammates, and help others debug issues with our tools.

Skills

Software development

Programming languages

Object Oriented Design

Architecture design

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a Software Development Engineer to build developer tools used by Amazon engineers. This language experience focus shapes compiler support, libraries, and OSS contributions across the company.

You will collaborate with teams to understand pain points, maintain build infra, and contribute to distributed and multi-threaded software platforms in a highly technical environment.