Software Engineer

Job Type: Full Time
Job Location: United States
Salary: $223
Company Name: Amazon

Company Overview

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. We are driven by the excitement of building technologies, inventing products, and providing services that change lives. We embrace new ways of doing things, make decisions quickly, and are not afraid to fail. We have the scope and capabilities of a large company, and the spirit and heart of a small one. Together, Amazonians research and develop new technologies from Amazon Web Services to Alexa on behalf of our customers: shoppers, sellers, content creators, and developers around the world.

About the job

Description

Looking for a role with Amazon wide impact? The Media Experience team owns the services used to store, manage and render nearly every image, video, and other media asset that Amazon customers see. Our goal is to build technologies that will be used across Amazon to deliver a rich and immersive experience to our customers globally. We’re looking for talented leaders to help build the next generation of our platform, dramatically changing the way customers interact with Amazon’s products.

Key job responsibilities

Developing the design, development, and maintenance of systems, ensuring they meet Amazon’s growing scale. Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.

Work with technical stakeholders from across the teams to solve problems, align on technical direction, and make sure our systems work with incredible scale and speed.

A day in the life

The challenges SDEs solve for at Amazon are big and influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years.

About The Team

If you ever wondered who is behind all the images on Amazon retail website – it’s us. Media Experience is Amazon’s largest asset management system, providing an end-to-end pipeline for uploading, managing, and delivering digital media assets, such as images, JavaScript, videos, and documents, for over 3K teams, covering all Amazon Retail websites, mobile apps, Alexa devices, Kindle, Prime Video, Fulfillment Center Systems, Amazon Lockers, as well as many subsidiary experiences like IMDb. Our goal is to build technologies that will be used across Amazon to deliver a rich and immersive experience to our customers globally.

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

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