Senior Software Engineer, Amazon Photos
About The Position
Amazon Photos helps consumers preserve and re-live their memories. The service comes with unlimited photo storage for Prime members and apps are available on iOS, Android, Web, Desktop, Fire Tablet & Fire TV. The service is also integrated into Alexa devices such as Echo Show and Echo Spot. Amazon Photos is the latest digital offering to consumers released on the heels of the Amazon Music and Amazon Video offerings. We have ambitious goals to scale growth and adoption of the service around the world and delight our customers with a great product. Do you love solving complex problems? Do you have a passion for distributed systems? Do you dream of working on systems that operate at exabyte scale? Do you want to create innovative solutions using AWS technologies? Are you ready to build the next generation of Amazon's consumer Cloud Storage platform? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, Amazon Photos may be the perfect job for you. Amazon Photos is helping customers enjoy and share their most cherished digital assets. We are building products that make it easy for customers to protect what matters to them, no matter the device or platform that content lives on. We are delivering new products and features to delight our customers and change how they view the cloud. And we want you to be part of it! About the team Amazon Photos helps consumers preserve and re-live their memories. The service comes with unlimited photo storage for Prime members and apps are available on iOS, Android, Web, Desktop, Fire Tablet & Fire TV. The service is also integrated into Alexa devices such as Echo Show. We have ambitious goals to scale growth and adoption of the service around the world and delight our customers with a great product.
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
Nice To Haves
- 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
Responsibilities
- Leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Mentoring, acting as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team
Benefits
- 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
- parental leave
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
