Amazon Software Development Engineer 

United States, Oregon, Portland 

885474048

Key job responsibilities* Design, develop, and maintain large scale web and API applications on AWS focusing on performance, scalability and stability
* Integrate our systems with core Amazon services for e-commerce, identity, security, etc.
* Contribute to ideating new services to support products and initiatives across our AWS Learning Services space
* Work closely with business stakeholders to understand their requirements, and identify opportunities to improve business processes through software automation
* Collaborate on our technology roadmap, turn visions into reality.
* Participate in Agile development.On-Call Responsibility
This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.
About the team
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.Why AWS
Work/Life BalanceMentorship 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.

- 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