Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon
EC2 Nitro Cordite
$134.5-261.5k
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Open for applications
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$134.5-261.5k
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- Strong analytical, design and problem solving skills
- Excellent leadership skills and the ability to hit the ground running
- Excellent time management and follow-through ability while managing multiple priorities
- Effective communication and inter-personal skills
- Experience in building and operating high performance systems at scale and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs
- Deep understanding of software development practices and experience with all phases of development
- Thrive in a fast paced environment that encourages and rewards creative design and intelligent risk taking
- Experience programming in C, C++ or Python on high performance systems
- Experience developing software in Linux environments
- Experience with device drivers, firmware management and understanding of IO technologies like NVMe are a big plus
- Experience with storage, filesystems, virtualization technologies and on-demand computing
- Exposure to software development techniques with large distributed systems involving petabytes of data
- Exposure to managing virtualized large scale systems
- 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
Desirable
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
What the job involves
- The Cordite team, part of AWS EC2 Nitro is looking for engineers to help us define and build the future of cloud storage
- The team provides a virtualized hardware-accelerated instance storage solution and owns the EC2 storage optimized instances
- As a member of this team, you will work alongside extremely bright engineers, product managers and leaders who obsess about performance, availability, scalability and durability of customer data
- You will be developing features in the Instance Storage data plane that solve customers' real world problems
- You will be solving technical problems at a large scale, using SOA, distributed systems, and storage technologies
- As a member of this team, you will have strong ownership over the design, implementation and operation of a massive scale distributed storage system
- The unique accountability of owning EC2 storage optimized instances will provide the opportunity to work with and learn about the large EC2 eco-system
- You will have the opportunity to work closely with an agile team that ships often, and see the impact your code has on a wide range of customers from startups to enterprise companies
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
- Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
- 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt
Company values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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Founders
Jeff Bezos
(Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO (not founder))Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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