Software Tools Engineer, Language & Build Platforms

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

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Arlington, VA, is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the Programming Foundations Team within Builder Experience.

You will design and build developer tools used by Amazon engineers, focusing on languages, libraries, and shared software. This role involves maintaining build tools, compilers, and package managers, collaborating with teams across Amazon to solve real engineering challenges, writing and reviewing code, and helping others debug issues

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.
• 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

• Design and build developer tools that Amazon engineers use every day.
• Work with languages and libraries that power Amazon's services, making them easier to use and more reliable.
• Help maintain our build tools, compilers and package managers.
• Work on our 3PSW repository mirrors.
• Collaborate with engineers across Amazon to understand pain points and build tools that address them.
• Write code, review code from teammates, and help others debug issues with our tools.

Skills

3+ years professional software

2+ years architecture/design

1+ years SDE experience

1+ years OO design

1+ languages exposure

Bachelor's degree

Experience programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Arlington, VA, is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the Programming Foundations Team within Builder Experience.

You will design and build developer tools used by Amazon engineers, focusing on languages, libraries, and shared software. This role involves maintaining build tools, compilers, and package managers, collaborating with teams across Amazon to solve real engineering challenges, writing and reviewing code, and helping others debug issues