Software Development Engineer, Amazon Key

Amazon • Austin, TX

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About The Position

Amazon Key allows us to securely deliver packages directly into customers' garages. Customers have embraced Amazon Key to protect their deliveries. We are continuously improving and delighting our rapidly growing customer base. We are seeking motivated, talented individuals who want to make an impact on the Amazon Key delivery experience. You will work on challenging technical problems and learn along the way. Specifically, we are looking for passionate, entrepreneurial, hardworking Software Development Engineers with experience building high-performance, highly-available, and scalable distributed systems to help drive this mission.

Key job responsibilities
You're a seasoned engineer with rich experience in designing, developing, and supporting multiple software intensive systems. You will be successful if you:
1) Have a strong sense of ownership and customer focus
2) Care about code quality and readability
3) Are comfortable working with data structures as much as discussing software development processes with your peers
4) Get inspired by collecting product and system metrics, and by proposing improvements
5) Persevere when troubleshooting build, deployment or live issues
6) Take code review feedback gracefully and provide your feedback with abundance
7) Love to see your code deployed, and want to see it happening more often

A day in the life
1) Collaborating with project teams across various themes like core platform development, software compliance, and financial optimization.
2) Engaging in technical discussions and brainstorming sessions to devise software strategies.
3) Active participation in our development sprints, reviewing code, and ensuring the implementation of best practices.
4) Interacting with stakeholders, understanding their needs, and translating them into technical solutions.
5) Mentoring team members (SDE1), providing guidance, and fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
6) Regularly reviewing and optimising existing systems and processes for better efficiency and performance.

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 software development engineer or related occupational 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
• Have a strong sense of ownership and customer focus
• Care about code quality and readability
• Are comfortable working with data structures as much as discussing software development processes with your peers
• Get inspired by collecting product and system metrics, and by proposing improvements
• Persevere when troubleshooting build, deployment or live issues
• Take code review feedback gracefully and provide your feedback with abundance
• Love to see your code deployed, and want to see it happening more often

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

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and supporting multiple software intensive systems
• Collaborating with project teams across various themes like core platform development, software compliance, and financial optimization.
• Engaging in technical discussions and brainstorming sessions to devise software strategies.
• Active participation in our development sprints, reviewing code, and ensuring the implementation of best practices.
• Interacting with stakeholders, understanding their needs, and translating them into technical solutions.
• Mentoring team members (SDE1), providing guidance, and fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
• Regularly reviewing and optimising existing systems and processes for better efficiency and performance.

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