Senior Software Development Engineer, EC2 VPC

About the team

Our team values work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we foster an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing. Our senior engineers truly enjoy mentoring more junior engineers and engineers from non-traditional backgrounds through one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth. We try to assign projects and tasks based on what will help you develop into a well-rounded engineer.

Responsibilities

• Being the lead engineer on a small team, mentoring junior engineers, ensuring the right development practices are followed.
• Be very hands-on; work with the engineering team to manage the day-to-day development activities by leading architecture decisions, participating in designs, design review, code review, and implementation.
• Maintain current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology, always on a lookout for new technologies and work with management and development team in bringing new technologies.
• Communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• 1+ years experience in leading a team in terms of architecture, mentoring and pushing best software development practices
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Experience developing in C or C++

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ 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
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency in design and analysis of algorithms and data structures
• Linux operating system knowledge + development experience
• In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP
• Kernel or embedded development, particularly Linux kernel
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience influencing software engineers best practices within your team
• Scripting (Ruby/Python)

Pay

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

USA, CA, San Diego - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually