Software Development Engineer, Global Engineering Services

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Description

Global Engineering Insights & Software Tools (GEIST) is looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented Software development Engineer who has experience in supporting innovative and mission critical software tools. In this role, you will be building & supporting complex software tools and data solutions with automations using AWS tech stacks. You will have an enormous opportunity to work on multiple AWS tech stacks, researching and identifying opportunities to have a positive impact on customer experience.

Key job responsibilities

As a SDE in the GEIST org, you'll work closely with some of the brightest app developers, Data Engineers, SDE's and TPM's to solve highly complex challenges related to software tools. You will be responsible for designing and developing software solutions/tools to improve speed, quality and efficiency of various teams working on Amazon projects. You will be working on tools and infrastructure challenges involving software, big data and large scale back-end cloud services, all with the goal of delivering seamless experience to the customer.

A day in the life

A successful candidate will have a deep technical expertise, excellent leadership skills, an interest in developing software, data & infrastructure solutions/automations, excellent organizational skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. Candidate must have demonstrated the ability to manage complex software products, understand business use cases and translate them into technical requirements, build solutions that are reliable and scalable

You should be comfortable diving deep into technical architectures and requirements, be able to quickly identify solutions to challenges discovered during development, and ready to work with some of the latest cloud computing technology. Prior experience with building stable & scalable software and data solutions is required. Prior experience with databases, designing massively parallel systems is a plus.

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment.

At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you're passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

About The Team

GEIST organization is responsible for providing software and data solutions for organizations working on delivering capacity to the Amazon Fulfillment network, including planning, configuration management, design, construction, startup, launch, and operations engineering teams. Partnering with app developers, SDE's, Data Engineers and TPM's, you would support existing software tools/infrastructure and help build new ones to be used by various teams across the globe. Successful members of this team collaborate effectively to solve problems, implement new solutions, and deliver successfully against high operational standards

Basic Qualifications

• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Must have experience with React(Front-End), Node JS and AWS CDK
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
  
  

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