Software Development Engineer, Amazon Alerting

Software Development Engineer, Amazon Alerting

Interested in developing next generation communication and notification platforms? The WISE-Alerting team within the larger Builder Issues & Discovery team is looking for software developers with experience in building real-time, scalable, distributed systems. We leverage AWS technologies to operate on a global scale and deliver low-latency, highly-available services to customers, systems, and mobile devices across Amazon. In pursuit of that mission, we are looking for experienced software developers to help design, build, and launch these platforms. If you are intrigued, please keep reading.

Do you:

1. Obsess over software performance and challenge yourself and others to deliver highly scalable, low latency, reliable and fast services to a variety of platforms?
2. Possess great ideas and know how to solve problems, but also follow through with a clean and maintainable implementation?
3. Have a high bar for coding excellence and a passion for design and architecture?
4. Want to work with the latest AWS technologies to achieve rapid scale?

If yes, then we might have a role for you. We are small, product-centered teams of passionate software engineers that are looking to delight our customers by building awesome software – while working hard, having fun, and making history.

A day in the life

1. Respond to customers and internal stakeholders.
2. Monitor and respond to events affecting the uptime of the Alerting Services.
3. Work on the roadmap times to deliver the goals.
4. Day to day operational activities, Design reviews, code reviews and help junior engineers.

About the hiring group

The WISE-Alerting team is a tier-1 service that owns the Incident Engagement Services like OnCall, paging and critical Ticketing workflows that power Amazon's Incident Response ecosystem.

Basic qualifications

1. 1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
2. 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
3. Programming experience with at least one software programming language.

Preferred qualifications

1. Ability to think abstractly and willingness to deal with ambiguous problems.
2. Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C# or C++.
3. Solid software development background including design patterns, data structures, test driven development.
4. Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and NoSQL databases.
5. Experience in building and maintaining mission-critical enterprise software.
6. Experience in Linux command line scripting (Perl, Python, or Ruby).
7. Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, a related field or equivalent work experience.

About AWS

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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.

Work/Life Balance

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Inclusive Team Culture

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