Software Development Engineer II, Amazon WorkSpaces Applications

AWS Applied AI Solutions (AAIS) is building toward a future where every business innovates with Amazon AI teammates. To get there, we build AI solutions that improve human capabilities and transform entire business functions. We create end-to-end products that surprise and delight out-of-the-box, making complex things easy and hard things possible, with no cloud experience required. We start with customers who embrace the future and build bridges to meet the rest where they are. We pursue ambitious opportunities with conviction, and we are looking for builders who share that mindset.

Do you want to design, build and operate services that are used by millions of customers every day? Are you passionate about architecting highly available and large-scale services?

If the answer is yes, the WorkSpaces Applications team wants to talk with you. We're a rapidly-growing team and we're looking for talented and motivated engineers to join us.

WorkSpaces Applications enables SaaS application streaming and virtual desktop delivery for customers at an incredible scale. We offer a unique opportunity to solve some of the most interesting problems associated with providing secure, reliable, fast and highly scalable solutions. You'll build on top of AWS utilizing industry-leading patterns on EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, Lambda, APIGateway, and more. We strive to deliver innovative solutions and features that enable millions of concurrent streams, snappy click-to-stream app starts, end-to-end streaming latency faster than human perception, lowest possible cost per streaming session, secure and isolated streams for optimal compute and graphics utilization, high fidelity graphics, broad server OS selection, and broad client OS support.

Key job responsibilities

- Design, Develop, Deliver and Operate secure, reliable and scalable solutions for customer features as well as internal operational improvements.

- Maintain high standards by delivering high quality in your own work as well as pushing for a high bar in code, design, and other document reviews for the team.

- Work across team boundaries and help deliver on team projects by showing high bar of ownership, earn trust and deliver results.

- Develop a deep understanding of the system as well as the overall service, understand core customer usage patterns and workflows. Be part of the team's oncall rotation and help in directly engaging with customers and stakeholders and drive ticket and issue resolution.

- Demonstrate customer obsession in your work (design, implementation, testing, deployments, operations).

- Develop your communication skills and leverage written and verbal communication to earn trust and drive consensus and required outcomes while collaborating with teammates and across team-boundaries.

- Be closely engaged in team meetings and processes and help continuously identify and drive improvements for the team's efficiency and effectiveness.

- Be a mentor and role model for junior engineers by exemplifying and reinforcing Amazon's Leadership Principles every day

About the team

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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

- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational 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 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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, 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.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Sunnyvale - 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually