Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Optics

Amazon is at the forefront of building innovative services to secure its business from security threats. The Software Development Engineer II role involves designing, developing, and optimizing secure services that protect AWS physical locations, ensuring operational excellence and collaboration with stakeholders.

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

Skills

• 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
• This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

Benefits

• Equity
• Sign-on payments
• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits

Company Overview

• Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It was founded in 1994, and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://amazon.com.