Software Development Engineer, Amazon Central Sourcing

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Software Development

Software Development Engineer role at Amazon focusing on building scalable cloud services. The role emphasizes leveraging generative AI tools to enhance development workflows, code quality, and delivery speed. Responsibilities include designing and implementing highly available services, solving complex distributed systems challenges, and contributing to operational excellence. Requires experience in software development, system design, and programming languages like Java, C++, or C#.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and implement highly available, scalable cloud services in Java.
  2. Build and operate Tier-1 services at massive scale
  3. Solve novel and complex distributed systems challenges — from low-latency communication to fault-tolerant architectures
  4. Leverage generative AI extensively in your day-to-day development workflow to accelerate delivery and improve code quality
  5. Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams across Amazon to define technical direction and deliver customer-facing features

Skills

Required

  • 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
  • 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
  • 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
  • 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice to have

  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • highly available, scalable cloud services
  • massive scale
  • novel and complex distributed systems challenges