Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Optics

Amazon•Herndon, VA

About The Position

Join the Amazon Optics team and be at the forefront of building innovative services that secure the foundation of our business from security threats. Our team develops and manages critical services used by all Corporate and AWS data center employees to protect physical sites and preserve the trust that AWS users have placed in us. You'll work with passionate software engineers to build systems that are essential for keeping Corporate and AWS sites secure worldwide. In this role, you'll design, develop, and optimize solutions where "can't be done" isn't considered an answer. You'll tackle complex architecture challenges with extensible, scalable solutions while always seeking ways to simplify. As a significant contributor throughout the software development lifecycle, you'll build services that are deployed to every AWS region using AWS services in a fully Infrastructure as Code (IaC) environment, where you'll own everything end-to-end. This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen.

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
1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

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

Responsibilities

Design and implement secure services that protect AWS physical locations, making meaningful contributions to the full software development lifecycle from scoping and design through testing, deployment, and maintenance.
Take ownership of operational excellence, identifying root causes of issues and implementing permanent fixes while continually improving team operations.
Work with stakeholders to understand business and customer value, ensuring you deliver solutions that balance customer requirements with team objectives.
Actively participate in code reviews, providing meaningful feedback to teammates while contributing to documentation that explains how systems are constructed, tested, and operated.
Automate operational inefficiencies for both the team and customers, building solutions that scale across all AWS regions while maintaining high quality standards.