Software Development Engineer III, Amazon Privacy Services
About the role
Amazon Privacy Engineering builds the automated compliance tooling, policy enforcement systems, and regulatory evidence collection systems that protect customer data and ensure regulatory compliance across various Amazon services.
Responsibilities
- Act as a technical leader on the team and influence key technical strategies.
- Simplify existing systems (e.g., by consolidating redundant systems, deleting unnecessary code, or removing/updating out of date documentation).
- Lead large projects that require the work of a team, dividing software projects into parallel workstreams that can be delivered independently and unified into cohesive launches.
- Drive mindful discussions with customers and peers and lead them to towards a bold vision.
- Take ownership of team architecture, providing a system-wide view and design guidance.
- Make appropriate architectural trade-offs and deliver innovative, secure, easily maintainable, appropriately scalable and extensible solutions.
- Drive engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards.
- Accept active recruitment and help others leverage your expertise, by coaching and mentoring in our organization.
Requirements
You're looking for a career where you'll be able to ideate, innovate, design, build and deliver technology solutions. You look at problems holistically and thrive on cutting through complexity to deliver simple and maintainable solutions. You want to work on projects where you are implementing solutions to real problems that require creative solutions and deep understanding of the problem space. You challenge yourself and others to constantly come up with better solutions. You strive to elevate team members through mentorship and the establishment of bar raising mechanisms.
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