Software Development Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to design, build, and launch a brand new AWS service. Come join the Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineering team in our new Boston Seaport location overlooking the Fort Point channel as we revolutionize the world of cloud storage.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a dynamic and rapidly growing business within Amazon, with over a million active customers in 190 countries around the world. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 90 services that range from compute, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, developer, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), security, hybrid and enterprise applications. We maintain this rapid pace of innovation by treating each team like its own startup inside AWS, directly accountable for their customers' satisfaction, service innovations, ambitious growth, and meeting revenue goals.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will design and build a new service that is secure, reliable, and massively scalable. Delivering a reliable and high-performance service at AWS scale requires engineers with extraordinary technical expertise and boundless creativity. At Amazon, we expect engineers like you to interact with customers, to understand our business goals, to innovate rapidly, and to deliver high-quality and ground-breaking functionality.

Embark on a journey with us to build a new service for Amazon AWS. We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help build this exciting new service for Amazon. This is an opportunity to shape the future of a new service at Amazon scale with a team that is super smart, driven to serve customers, and fun to work with in a start-up like environment.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
· 3+ years professional experience in commercial or web-scale system software development and delivery
· Proven skill in a modern programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Python
· Understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures and algorithms
· Understanding of operating system fundamentals (Linux or Windows)
· Proficiency in network, distributed, asynchronous and concurrent programming
· Experience designing, building and delivering high quality software on time
· Strong verbal and written communication skills
· Strong analytical skills, with excellent problem solving abilities in the face of ambiguity