Software Engineer, EC2 Nitro Platform

Amazon Inc.

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 144,000 - 194,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle seeks an experienced Software Development Engineer for EC2 Nitro.

You will help build the platform that powers the world’s premier cloud, writing Java and other languages in a Linux environment, and collaborating with principal engineers to design scalable, reliable services. This hands-on role covers the full software lifecycle from requirements and design to testing, monitoring, and operations, with mentorship and opportunities for career growth

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
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

Responsibilities

The infrastructure and technologies needed are growing and innovating at rapid pace. Work is primarily done in Java and includes the full lifecycle of software development including: requirements, system design, implementation, testing, monitoring, support, alarming, and reporting. We own our software end‑to‑end.
Software Development Engineers work closely with EC2 Principal Engineers and other technical leaders to refine technical direction, and then follow through with detailed analysis, designs, and high quality code.
A day in the life: This is a hands‑on position in which you will own everything from end to end: requirements gathering, designs, design reviews, implementations, code reviews, incremental feature launches, operations, mentoring, and the driving of continuous improvement.