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Amazon Senior Software Dev Engineer Incident Command Systems 
United States, California, Irvine 
374684421

05.02.2025
DESCRIPTION

We’re hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer to help shape and drive Monitoring & Detection engineering efforts as part of the incident response program for the worldwide Amazon retail websites.
You will be required to dive deep into the intricacies of post-incident analysis, uncovering what went wrong, identifying opportunities for improvement, and ensuring that blind spots are addressed in the future. Amazon incidents are inherently complex, fast-paced, and highly nuanced, presenting a unique and challenging environment for technical problem-solving.Key job responsibilities
As an Sr.SDE on our team, you will play a crucial role in defining, building, and integrating key performance indicators for various services into our platform. This will require you to navigate the complex architectural landscape of Amazon and work collaboratively with service owners across the organization.
Your technical expertise and insightful architectural design instincts will be instrumental in developing simple, elegant, and scalable solutions that can support the monitoring of thousands of unique services. You will be expected to take initiative and thrive in a relatively unstructured environment, leveraging your problem-solving skills to deliver innovative technical solutions.
Maintaining a deep understanding of the broader incident management ecosystem and its interdependencies will be essential.A day in the life

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ 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