Senior Software Dev Engineer, Apollo

Job ID: 2795353 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Ever wondered how AWS (think of S3, EC2, DynamoDB, and more), the Amazon retail web site, Alexa, Prime Video, and hundreds of other services are available 24 hours a day, across the world, yet are continually evolving?

Apollo is the answer!

The Apollo team (part of AWS Builder Tools organization) owns the software and systems that helps Amazon’s massive developer team community build the cutting edge services and technology that Amazon is known for. Our systems deliver the technology that powers fully-automated continuous deployment workflows and dynamic scaling for some of the world’s largest services. We execute millions of deployments to millions of hosts, every day.

Apollo makes it possible for every developer at Amazon to rapidly change their running applications without ever having to take an outage. Every engineer uses it every day. In Apollo, everything we do goes into production and is instantly used by tens of thousands of other engineers.

What we do makes a difference, and we're not done yet! We are looking for software developers who are passionate about making managing applications in the cloud work for everyone. Come join Apollo and make a positive impact on your Amazon development teams and their services!

Key job responsibilities

1. Responsible for leading by example and mentoring more junior engineers.
2. Leading the team's technical strategy and delivering on excellent designs and code.
3. Solving our complex technical challenges with customer obsession.
4. Work and collaborate in an agile team to deliver results and meet commitments.
5. Own and architect distributed, fault tolerant, highly available and scalable services.
6. Assist in developing project plans and meeting on customer commitments.
7. Strive to constantly improve our operational practices and CI/CD practices.
8. Work with other engineers to diagnose and resolve customer issues including as part of on-call rotation.

About the team

The Amazon Software Builder Experience (ASBX) organization has a mission of creating the world’s best builder experience across tens of thousands of software engineers, and all Amazon businesses (e.g., AWS, Amazon Stores, etc.). Our Builder Tools team in ASBX owns the software development tools Amazon software teams use to develop, release, and manage their software. This role is for you if you’re passionate about software development, development tools, and having world-wide impact across all of Amazon! In addition to delivering results, we also appreciate establishing a work-life balance, having fun with our co-workers, and supporting an inclusive and collaborative team environment.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2. 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
3. 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
4. Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
2. 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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/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.

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