Software Development Engineer II, AWS Documentation Engineering, TCX Engineering

Do you want to own cutting edge technology, solve new problems that incorporate GenAI, and have the ability to see the impact of your successes?

Amazon is growing, and we need SDEs who move fast, are capable of breaking down and solving complex problems, and have a strong will to get things done.

SDEs at Amazon work on real world problems on a global scale, incorporate machine learning, own their systems end to end and influence the direction of our technology that impacts hundreds of millions customers around the world.

In this role, you will own solutions from design and execution through deployment and support, using the best of available tools, including EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, and ML / AI.

You will be responsible for delivering high quality code, optimizing existing systems and leading engineers. You should be invested in helping our customers, understanding that it is important to build practical solutions that are scalable and easy to maintain.

Most importantly, you should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where delivery of new products and features is very rapid.

The right candidate will possess proven software engineering skills, with experience creating and launching large distributed systems with the help of a team.

You are expected to be versatile, able to thrive in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment and eager to mentor junior engineers.

You are comfortable managing competing priorities and are able to bring order to ambiguous scenarios. Maturity, impeccable judgment, and the ability to influence and lead are essential to success in this role.

You are data-driven and analytical. You can clearly & effectively communicate (written as well as verbally) across organizations and up to senior leadership.

Work / Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. We’re also flexible when people occasionally need to work from home.

Inclusive Team culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally.

We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.

Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Key job responsibilities

• Work on team projects that require the work of multiple engineers.
• Apply ML / GenAI at scale
• Design and own technical architectures that are scalable, performant and easy to maintain.
• Provide guidance on technology choices.
• Hands on coding.
• Work backwards from customer needs to design technical solutions.
• Solve ambiguous problems
• Invent and simplify existing systems

About the team

Diverse Experiences

AWS 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.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences.

Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

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.

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.

TCX Engineering builds tools to deliver innovative technical documentation for AWS. We work directly with writers, editors, service teams and architects to help them easily create high quality content for AWS customers.

We innovate, research, experiment and collaborate with product managers to understand our customers’ needs. We partner with software developers to learn the inner workings of AWS services so that we can influence design and the customer experience.

We are a catalyst in the successful adoption and implementation of AWS services.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 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

PREFERRED 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 race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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