Software Development Engineer, Amazon Simple Email Service

About the role

Join the Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) team, where you'll tackle the challenges of sending billions of emails daily for businesses worldwide. You'll build systems that handle massive scale, develop innovative solutions to combat email abuse, and create AI/ML capabilities that solve real customer problems around deliverability and engagement.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate high-throughput data classification systems that process billions of events daily
• Develop and maintain real-time data pipelines that aggregate signals from external partners into actionable metrics
• Build and tune monitoring and alarm systems that balance detection sensitivity against operational noise
• Create tooling and automation that accelerates investigation workflows and reduces manual toil
• Interpret ambiguous or inconsistent external data sources and encode domain knowledge into reliable classification logic
• Collaborate with partner teams to ensure signal quality drives correct downstream decisions
• Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to operational excellence improvements

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.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of building complex software systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Prioritization

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 4+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl