Amazon Software Development Engineer Global Edge 

United States, Massachusetts 

556555757

This is a high ownership role with significant scope. We value your ideas and are looking for people who want to help innovate.Everyone on the team wears multiple hats and works in a highly collaborative environment. As an Amazon Software Development Engineer, you will help tackle a diverse landscape of technical challenges. We are a greenfield initiative, and you will play an active role in translating business requirements into concrete systems and prototyping concepts in partnership with technology leaders within the team and across the business.You will design, develop and deploy reliable distributed solutions that operate at Amazon scale. You will work with a variety of core languages and technologies including Java, Python, Linux, and AWS services, including Greengrass and IoT. You will tackle challenging and novel situations every day and you will have the opportunity to work alongside talented Amazon engineers to redefine an industry. Along the way, we guarantee that you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on many people.A successful engineer in this role:
- is highly analytical. You solve problems in ways that can be backed up with verifiable data. You focus on driving processes, tools, and statistical methods which support rational decision-making.
- is engaged by ambiguity. You're able to explore new problem spaces with unique constraints and thus non-obvious solutions.You will identify problems and develop solutions. You embrace performance metrics and measurement techniques because they help you assess how well system-related services are running. You are customer-obsessed and think about what you can do to make their experience better.You will be a role model for other talented engineers, develop their engineering capabilities, and guide them on making the correct technical decisions.Key job responsibilities- You will partner with multiple Software Development Managers, robotics solutions engineers, Product Managers, Technical Program Managers, and customers to innovate in the compute automation space. Our group owns making compute automation scalable and seamless across the globe.A day in the life
The engineer for this role will:- Implement new software by designing, coding and launching global edge compute automation systems- Partner with SDMs and PMs to gather requirements and define features
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

- 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
- OR, Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree in Electronics, Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree in Engineering Science, Bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics