Amazon Software Development Engineer II Veritas 

United States, Texas, Austin 

72512741

Key job responsibilities
As a key member of the engineering team, you will have influence on our product strategy by helping define the product features, refine system architecture, and spearhead best practices that enable a quality product.A commitment to teamwork, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements.
You will heavily influence design and implement significant portions of “critical-path” code, work independently and collaborate on software design reviews with senior engineers to ensure software is scalable, performant, and maintainable for the long term.You will help deliver high quality software that is secure, testable, maintainable, efficient, and has little to no defects.
Creating a highly stable foundational service requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems.
You will focus on operational excellence including analyzing the overall health and performance of the system.A day in the life
The bulk of an average day is centered around designing and building features to enhance existing applications.
Otherwise other elements of a day that happen are:
· Working on ad-hoc requests and bug fixes
· Participating in doc reviews with product managers and stakeholders
· Supporting and delegating tickets while on-call
· Team meetings and presentations/learning sessionsAbout the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security 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.
Work/Life Balance

- 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