Job Information
Amazon Software Development Engineer, Solution Engineering in Austin, Texas
Description
Do you want to lead, engineer, and deliver software that will help small and medium business customers solve their most strategic challenges through cloud technologies? Do you like to tackle ambiguous problems and proactively mitigate risks before they become roadblocks? If you have a passion to help transform and accelerate a customer’s ability to gain value from the cloud, join the WWSO Solutions team!
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer (SDE) within the AWS Solutions Engineering Team, you will design, engineer, and deliver AWS Solutions with considerable impact for AWS customers. We are looking for world class software development engineers to deliver software solutions focused on helping jump start customer’s cloud workloads. You will work with product management, customers, and your software development team to deliver AWS Solutions, software assets, and build an open-source community that drives small and medium business innovation on AWS.
At Amazon, we hire software engineers who work efficiently, solve complex and ambiguous problems, and deliver new software with limited guidance. You will get to make technical and business trade-offs based on your understanding of the business impact of your systems. You will own team architecture, provide system-wide view and design guidance, make things simpler, and resolve the root cause of endemic problems.
A day in the life
As an SDE, you will:
• Work efficiently to solve complex and ambiguous problems
• Deliver high quality software with limited guidance
• Make technical, business, short-term, and long-term trade-offs based on your understanding of the business impact of your systems
• Own team architecture, provide system-wide guidance, and make things simpler
• Resolve the root cause of endemic problems and remove bottlenecks.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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 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.
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.
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top 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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.