Job Description
Read on to find out what you will need to succeed in this position, including skills, qualifications, and experience.
Imagine if you could help shape the future of millions of AWS Customers, Partners, and Users as they learn how to maximize tools, services, and offerings in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Join us as we build and operate learning experiences that allow our customers to learn about AWS at their own pace and provide access to rich content that enables our customers in their journey to gain technical expertise.
This is a unique opportunity to contribute in building Service Oriented Architecture-based applications using cutting-edge serverless technologies.
We are looking for highly motivated engineers to bring in their ideas and experience to help us reach our goals.
Key Job Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain large scale web and API applications on AWS focusing on performance, scalability and stability.
- Integrate our systems with core Amazon services for e-commerce, security, etc.
- Contribute to ideating new services to support products and initiatives across our AWS Learning Services space.
- Work closely with business stakeholders to understand their requirements, and identify opportunities to improve business processes through software automation.
- Collaborate on our technology roadmap, turning visions into reality.
- Participate in Agile development.
- On-Call Responsibility : This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant.
When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.
About The Team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.
If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Work / Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture.
When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture that empowers us to be proud of our uniqueness.
Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on and (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of non-professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
- Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
Qualifications
- 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.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https : / / www.amazon.jobs / en / / us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300 / year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600 / year in our highest geographic market.
Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and / or other benefits.
For more information, please visit https : / / www.aboutamazon.com / workplace / employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled.
Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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