Amazon Software Development Engineer Consensus Distributed 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

682401305

Key job responsibilities- You solve difficult problems, applying appropriate technologies and architectural patterns.
- You are proficient in a broad range of design approaches and know when it is appropriate to use them (and when it is not). Your solutions are pragmatic navigating constraints.
- You create maintainable software without over-engineering. You make appropriate trade-offs, re-use where possible, and are judicious about introducing dependencies.
A day in the life
- Designing and driving technical decisions that balance competing priorities and constraints
- Implementing changes at a high quality meeting stringent requirements for availability, durability, and performance
- Creating and implementing automation that improve system reliability and operational efficiency- Driving investigations to root cause anomalies, and delivering robust solutions
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- 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