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Amazon Software Development Engineer, Advanced Technologies in Seattle, Washington
Description
This is a unique opportunity to join a small, high impact team working on a new initiative at the cross section of human biology, health, and machine learning. You will work with experts across a variety of domains to enable cutting edge research, development, and testing for a breakthrough new product.
If you have found yourself yearning to solve more meaningful problems (in the grander scheme of things), you might be particularly interested in this opportunity. Technically, you should expect to work with large scale data processing, algorithm development, machine learning applications, and performance engineering. For the right candidate for this role, the opportunity to learn and innovate in healthcare by working alongside experts in that field will be a major draw.
In this early stage initiative, there will be a lot of opportunity to influence what we build and how to build it. High judgement engineers will find that this is a fertile opportunity for demonstrating influence and high impact decision making.
Key job responsibilities
Work with your peers to design, deliver and test high-quality solutions that leverage best-in-industry practices for back-end development and applied machine learning (cloud based).
Contribute to fast software iterations that allow the team to quickly test and evaluate new research directions in bioinformatics and machine learning.
Present execution plans, test strategies, and operational readiness assessments for planned software to various stakeholders
Identify opportunities to innovate and experiment to achieve key operational and customer metrics
A day in the life
You'll work with a cross-disciplinary team of engineers and scientists to plan, design and deliver customer-facing experiences in an emerging product space. You will be hands on in shaping product, user experience, and team processes to iterate quickly. You will partner closely with science and machine learning groups to create a delightful and highly reliable end-to-end product You will need to challenge "how things are done today" to identify new approaches to deliver faster without sacrificing quality. Expect to dive deep into the customer problem. This is an exciting area where the underlying scientific understanding is evolving quickly.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
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
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/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. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.