Description

Do you want to lead, engineer, and deliver software that will help media, entertainment and games customers solve their most strategic challenges through cloud technologies? Do you like to tackle ambiguous problems and proactively mitigate risks before they become roadblocks? If you have a passion to help transform and accelerate a customer’s ability to gain value from the cloud, join the Solutions Engineering team!

Key job responsibilities

As a Software Development Engineer (SDE) within the Specialist Engineering team, you will design, engineer, and deliver software with considerable impact for AWS customers. We are looking for world class software development engineers to deliver software focused on helping jump start customer’s cloud workloads. You will work with product management, customers, and your software development team to deliver software assets that drives media and games innovation on AWS.

At Amazon, we hire software engineers who work efficiently, solve complex and ambiguous problems, and deliver new software with limited guidance. You will get to make technical and business trade-offs based on your understanding of the business impact of your systems. As a developer on our team, you’ll own code end-to-end from design to development, and work closely with senior technical leaders within the team.

A day in the life

• Work efficiently to solve complex and ambiguous problems

• Deliver high quality software with limited guidance

• Make technical, business, short-term, and long-term trade-offs based on your understanding of the business impact of your systems

• Resolve the root cause of endemic problems and remove bottlenecks.

About the team

The Specialist Engineering team’s charter is to develop easy-to-use, repeatable, scalable software to solve industry problems. We leverage our domain expertise to work backwards from the needs of buyers and builders, and we anticipate and invent on their behalf.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

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.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

We integrate AWS services, capabilities, and partners, and they’re purpose-built to address priority customer use cases — and the innovation, modernization, and transformational business

outcomes customers seek. When using our software, customers achieve outcomes measurably faster, with lower effort and risk.

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

• Experience in media & entertainment or game tech

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.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.