Amazon Software Development Engineer Level Kata 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

269099587

As a Software Development Engineer, you will get to collaborate with multiple senior engineers across a large cross-section of the technical stack to propose and drive cross-system designs and implementations. This role provides you with autonomy and ownership of decisions, working backwards directly from customers. There are ample of opportunities for growth due to the high visibility work, and presence of senior engineering talent for guidance and mentorship. You will leverage technical skills like distributed systems, end-end system design and compilers.
Key job responsibilities
* You define new language capabilities and develop new language frameworks, including transpilers to other programming languages.* You create plans, communicate requirements, negotiate priorities, and clarify what success looks like.
* You define, deliver, and/or implement a variety of high quality, correct, customer focused technical solutions.
* You provide clear and concise verbal and written communication.
* You facilitate the dialogue, asking productive questions, providing recommendations, and fostering a shared understanding to identify risks and meet business needs.
* You participate in reviews of your peers’ work and provide useful and actionable input when submitted.
* You raise the bar on operational excellence while meeting/exceeding system SLAs (e.g. Availability, Latency)A day in the life

- 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