Amazon Software Dev Engineer II GTMC SIERRA 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

904369082

As an SDEII in GTMC SIERRA (Science, Insights, Experience, Research, Reporting & Analytics), you'll lead cross functional projects spanning Applied Science, Front End, and Backend engineering disciplines. You will build infrastructure and user experiences that deliver insights to Amazonians to help them complete Talent Management processes more efficiently and equitably. You'll be hands on while also leading other individual contributors to define and deliver on a roadmap that works backwards from our three year and operational plans. You'll be responsible for delivering and maintaining high quality, operationally sound software with strong controls around data security and privacy.
A day in the life
• Write maintainable, well-structured, and testable code to advance your in-flight project and submit a code review to the team
• Design a system to solve an Amazon scale problem and present a design document to the team to build consensus on your recommended approach
• Attend a team-level operations review meeting to understand system health and identify actions we need to take to keep the system available for our clients
• Meet with a customer to understand the problems they are facing, brainstorm solutions, and discuss with your management to affect team priorities
• Review a teammate's code change and raise the bar on team code quality by providing insightful comments
• Research new technologies that could help simplify your team's system and draft a message to the team with your findings
• Root cause and resolve a trouble ticket filed by a customer of your system
• Attend a one to one meeting with your manager to receive support on your work and discuss career development

- 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