- 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
Key job responsibilities
As a SDE, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying distributed systems and large-scale solutions for our world-wide customer base. In this role, you will collaborate with a broad organization of software developers, product managers, UX designers, subject matter experts and ML scientists. You will build and deliver architecturally and operationally sound, scalable, and resilient solutions. You will drive the system architecture, spearhead best practices that enable a quality product, and help coach and develop junior engineers. A successful candidate will have an established background in engineering large scale software systems, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.
All team members actively participate in product definition, technical architecture review, iterative development, code review, and operations.
A day in the life
You will work backwards from the customer needs and you will get to do everything from designing and building large scale systems and cutting-edge features for the savviest customers in the business.
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. Operational excellence and efficiency is one of our key design tenets and we strive hard to keep operational load on our team low.
About the team
Amazon DataZone is a data management service that makes it faster and easier for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on premises, and third-party sources. With Amazon DataZone, administrators and data stewards who oversee an organization's data assets can manage and govern access to data using fine-grained controls. These controls are designed to ensure access with the right level of privileges and context. Amazon DataZone makes it easier for engineers, data scientists, product managers, analysts, and business users to access data throughout an organization so that they can discover, use, and collaborate to derive data-driven insights.
- Amazon DataZone: https://aws.amazon.com/datazone/
- re: invent 2023 DataZone coverage
- What’s New in Amazon DataZone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-zZLWQcMek&list=PL2yQDdvlhXf8_GOWzkJwOsoDLgBw80nfi&index=25
- How to build a business catalog with Amazon DataZone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__2f3YVCRn0&list=PL2yQDdvlhXf8_GOWzkJwOsoDLgBw80nfi&index=9
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
New York, NY, USA
- 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
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $134,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.