Description

Amazon Robotics is looking for Software Development Engineers who are passionate, innovative and have a strong drive to automate and simplify. This position will report to the Software Development Manager for Unified Workcell Compute within the Global Edge Compute Team and have responsibility for software engineering across numerous cloud-based services designed to manage edge devices at scale.

The Amazon Robotics Global Edge Compute team is responsible for services that manage Amazon's edge compute fleet - over a million devices across thousands of locations worldwide. Our systems manage everything from cutting edge robotics systems in Austin, to delivery stations in Cairo. We deliver innovative technical solutions to facilitate the massive growth in Amazon compute capabilities around the globe.

Our team's mandate is to design, develop, and operate the next generation of device automation systems that allow for the provisioning and management of edge devices at Amazon scale. We're looking for entrepreneurial and innovative individuals who thrive on solving tough problems.

Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment. As an Amazon Software Development Engineer, you will help tackle a diverse landscape of technical challenges. We are a greenfield initiative, and you will play an active role in translating business requirements into concrete systems and prototyping concepts in partnership with technology leaders within the team and across the business.

You will design, develop and deploy reliable distributed solutions that operate at Amazon scale. You will work with a variety of core languages and technologies including JavaScript, TypeScript, Kotlin, Python, and Linux. You will also work with native AWS services, including EC2, ELB, CloudWatch, Code Deploy, Code Pipeline, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, Cognito, IoT, and GreenGrass. You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and will have the opportunity to work alongside talented Amazon engineers to redefine an industry. Along the way, we guarantee that you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on many people.

In this role, a successful engineer will:

• Embrace Automation: Managing 1M+ devices requires that you automate everything.

• Insist on High Standards: You create maintainable, high quality software with robust automated testing.

• Operate at Scale: You understand the challenges of operating large-scale systems in production and you use that expertise in your designs and implementations.

• Be Highly Analytical: You solve problems in ways that can be backed up with verifiable data. You focus on driving processes, tools, and statistical methods which support rational decision-making.

• Thrive on Ambiguity: You are able to explore new problem spaces with unique constraints to develop novel solutions. You quickly identify and fill gaps to best deliver value to customers.

• Learn Every Day: You get excited about learning every day and delighting customers by solving problems that have global impact.

Key job responsibilities

As an SDE-II, you will be collaborating with a team of highly talented engineers to help deliver a highly scalable unified management solution for compute devices on AWS. As an individual contributor, you would be raising the bar for technical design and code and work on product features starting with gathering requirements, technical design, coding, and operational support. You would work closely with cross functional TPMs and engineers from other teams to deliver new features to our products.

• You are constantly looking to make improvements to existing systems as well as looking for new problems to solve. You are not satisfied with the status quo.

• You uphold the highest standards, and encourage those around you to do the same.

• You are always looking for opportunities to learn about new technologies, new customer use-cases, or the inner workings of our systems.

• You are always asking what we can do to make our customers' experiences better. Putting yourself in their shoes and working backwards from there.

This role has significant scope and can serve as a stepping stone to Senior SDE as an individual contributor if you're seeking growth and new challenges.

A day in the life

• Design and implement new, cloud-based, software solutions to aid in managing edge devices at scale.

• Support team mates with insightful code reviews, peer programming, brainstorms and design discussions.

• Ensure the nominal operation of our cloud-based services, expanding metrics coverage and upholding high operational excellence standards.

About the team

We own the infrastructure automation that manages Amazon Fulfillment's compute and device infrastructure. We are passionate about taking complex infrastructure and abstracting it with self-service tooling. We embrace simple, decoupled, fault-tolerant solutions so we can spend more time innovating, and less time fixing.

Our team is tight-knit and operates primarily out of Austin. We have a mix of experience levels, and work in a broad, collaborative space that has something for everyone. We care about the development of our engineers and are invested in helping each other attain our career goals.

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.