Amazon Software Development Engineer AWS Region Services 

United States, Texas, Arlington 

531106697

About our Software Development Engineers:In this role you will:- Be challenged to Invent and Simplify to improve existing services for performance, cost, reliability, recoverability and security.When you’re ready, you will have on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. No one likes getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work hard to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant and resilient. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause of the issue so that we never get paged for the same issue twice.This position requires that the selected candidate be a United States Citizen. The candidate selected must be eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance up to the TS/SCI with polygraph level.Key job responsibilities
- Develop dynamic web applications and the APIs that power them
- Design and code new APIs (Java) that support both web and programmatic callers
- Create backend systems that scale by leveraging NoSQL and SQL databases (RDS & DynamoDB)
- Deliver front-end website UIs (JavaScript, TypeScript, React), through creating and translating mock-ups into code
- Support the Region Services organization mission through the creation of tooling for AWS region builds, service expansion and feature trackingUtility Computing (UC)Work/Life Balance
Mentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
- 1+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

- Associate's degree or above
- Knowledge of and proficiency in the use of Python scripting language
- Experience on highly concurrent, high throughput systems and knowledge of complex distributed systems
- Experience tools for automation (building, testing, releasing or monitoring)
- Active US Government security clearance of Top Secret or higher.