Software Development Engineer, Employee Listening

Amazon • Toronto, ON

8d • CA$114,800 - CA$191,800 • Onsite

About The Position

Our vision is to deliver an employee listening system that helps build a workplace where Amazonians can invent and deliver on behalf of customers. We put employee listening data, metrics, and insights in the right places to drive high quality, high velocity, high impact decisions. As a Software Development Engineer you will have technical ownership of the development of critical parts of this system. You will create innovative employee listening technology at Amazon scale. You'll join a talented and nimble team of engineers and create ways to streamline delivery. Successful candidates will be strong SDEs who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivery. You will drive architectural and design choices, invent new features, develop distributed services, and build a scalable employee listening product. We have a team culture that encourages innovation and we expect developers and management alike to take a high level of ownership for the product. We offer opportunities for builders to build and make history!

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
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• 2+ years of big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive, Lucene/SOLR or Storm/Samza experience

Responsibilities

• Work with technical leaders across the org to deliver large distributed projects to delight our customers
• Write high-quality, efficient, testable code
• Build highly available, secure systems
• Find out what it takes to engineer systems for "Amazon Scale"
• Collaborate with some of the best engineers in the industry
• Own and operate the systems that you build
• Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, release, operations, and process improvement as a member of the team
• Continue developing your skills in using AI tooling
• Get firsthand experience engineering with AWS services such as Glue, Athena, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB and others

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance)
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
• Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
• paid time off
• other resources to improve health and well-being

What This Job Offers

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