Software Dev Engineer II, Technical Content Experience (TCX) Engineering

Amazon • New York, NY

23d

About The Position

Do you want to own the latest technology, solve new problems, and have the
ability to see the impact of your successes?

Amazon is growing, and we need SDEs who move fast, are capable of breaking down
and solving complex problems, and have a strong will to get things done. SDEs at
Amazon work on real world problems on a global scale, own their systems end to
end and influence the direction of our technology that impacts hundreds of
millions customers around the world.

In this role, you will own solutions from design and execution through
deployment and support, using the best of available tools, including Lambda,
DynamoDB, and AI/ML services. You will be responsible for delivering high
quality code and optimizing existing systems. You should be invested in helping
our customers, understanding that it is important to build practical solutions
that are scalable and easy to maintain. Most importantly, you should be
comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where delivery of new products
and features is very rapid.

The right candidate will possess proven software engineering skills, with
experience creating and launching large distributed systems with the help of a
team. You are expected to be versatile, able to thrive in a dynamic,
entrepreneurial environment and eager to mentor junior engineers. You are
comfortable managing competing priorities. Maturity and impeccable judgment are
essential. You are data-driven and analytical. You can clearly & effectively
communicate with the team on work and technical design (written as well as
verbally).

TCX Engineering builds customer-facing experiences to deliver technical
documentation for AWS. We innovate, research, experiment and collaborate with
product managers to understand our customers’ needs. We partner with software
developers to learn the inner workings of AWS services so that we can influence
design and the customer experience. We are a catalyst in the successful adoption
and implementation of AWS services.

Requirements

• 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
• 3+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

Nice To Haves

• 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
• Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution

Responsibilities

• Design and own technical software AI-powered components that are scalable, performant and easy to maintain.
• Provide guidance on technology choices.
• Drive adoption of engineering best practices.
• Hands on coding.
• Work backwards from customer needs to design technical solutions.
• Solve ambiguous problems
• Invent and simplify existing systems
• Technical mentoring of team members

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level