Amazon Software Development Engineer Region Services 

United States, Virginia 

311132298

Region Build Engineering (RBE) leads the charter of transforming how AWS builds new regions by leveraging data and automation to optimize region builds. RBE’s systems and solutions look around corners to find insights that move the needle in reducing the duration of AWS Region Builds. Engineers in the RBE Organization are building new services and solutions from the ground up, leveraging AWS Serverless technologies including API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, and Aurora Serverless.Arlington, Virginia (HQ2)
Key job responsibilities
- Develop dynamic web applications and the APIs that power them
- Design and code new RESTful APIs (Python) that support both web and programmatic callers
- Build natively on AWS, using serverless technologies (CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda)
- Create backend systems that scale by leveraging NoSQL databases (DynamoDB)
- Deliver front-end website UIs (JavaScript, TypeScript, React), through creating and translating mock-ups into code
- Raise the bar on quality, security, performance, scalability, usability and operations
- Stay abreast of developments and trends in Cloud architectures, web dev and programming languages
- Support the Region Services organization mission through the creation of tooling for AWS region builds, service expansion and feature tracking
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- 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

- 5+ 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
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers