Software Dev Engineer III, Programming Foundations

Amazon • Boston, MA

40d

About The Position

Join the Programming Foundations Team within Amazon Builder Experience as a
Software Development Engineer. The Language Experience team in Builder Tools is
the center of excellence for Amazon's use of programming languages,
highly-leveraged shared software, and application build tools.

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.

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.

The Programming Foundations Team is part of Amazon Builder Experience. We work
on the basic tools and infrastructure that builders use to write software. Our
team includes engineers who care about developer experience and want to make
building software at Amazon easier. We do not own customer-facing products
directly, but our work affects every team that builds software at Amazon. We
focus on doing useful work rather than flashy projects. If you like building
tools that help other engineers and want to work on problems that span the whole
company, this team might be a good fit.

Requirements

• 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

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

• 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 and package managers.
• You will work on our 3PSW repository mirrors.
• You will collaborate with engineers across Amazon to understand their pain points and build tools that address them.
• You will write code, review code from teammates, and help others debug issues with our tools.

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