Software Dev Engineer II, Programming Foundations

About the role

Amazon Software Builder Experience (ASBX), started in 2022, is working to make Amazon the best place to build software. Every day, hundreds of thousands of Amazon software builders rely on us for the tools they build with, and for the technology, training, and community behind them. One of our most important responsibilities is shaping the language ecosystem, both inside Amazon and across the open-source community, to improve the experience for every software builder.

Our tools are used in all aspects of the business, and their care and evolution are of critical importance to the effectiveness of Amazon. We're looking for a deeply technical leader interested in sustaining and evolving the shared software platform used by nearly every service within the company. Those with experience evolving broadly distributed and highly complex software libraries, such as large open source projects and mission critical foundational software stacks will be given an opportunity to have company wide impact.

Key job responsibilities

• You will design and build developer tools that Amazon engineers use every day.
• You will work with the languages and libraries that power Amazon's services, making them easier to use and more reliable.
• You will help maintain our build tools, compilers, libraries and frameworks.
• You will shape how OSS upstream projects are developing, including contributing to them directly yourself.

You will collaborate with engineers across Amazon to understand their pain points and build tools, libraries and frameworks that address them. You will write code, review code from teammates, and help others debug issues with our tools.

A day in the life

• Your work will directly affect how builders at Amazon do their jobs.
• We are a language expertise team at the heart of being able to compile and shift software.
• This is practical work that requires understanding what builders actually need and building tools that solve their problems without getting in the way.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

• USA, MA, Boston - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
• USA, VA, Arlington - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually