Amazon · 11 hours ago
Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Optics
Annapolis Junction, Maryland, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$129K/yr - $224K/yr
3+ years expAmazon is a leading global company, and they are seeking a Software Development Engineer II to join the Amazon Optics team. The role involves designing, developing, and optimizing secure services that protect AWS physical locations, while contributing to the software development lifecycle and improving team operations.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Design and implement secure services that protect AWS physical locations, making meaningful contributions to the full software development lifecycle from scoping and design through testing, deployment, and maintenance
Take ownership of operational excellence, identifying root causes of issues and implementing permanent fixes while continually improving team operations
Work with stakeholders to understand business and customer value, ensuring you deliver solutions that balance customer requirements with team objectives
Actively participate in code reviews, providing meaningful feedback to teammates while contributing to documentation that explains how systems are constructed, tested, and operated
Automate operational inefficiencies for both the team and customers, building solutions that scale across all AWS regions while maintaining high quality standards
Qualification
Required
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
1+ 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 experience
1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred
3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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