Description

Amazon Operations Technology is looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer to join our Imperium Network Change Lifecycle Management team in Austin. In this role you will be solving challenging problems and developing scalable, high-performing solutions that require minimal long term sustaining and development. Our team is responsible for managing the lifecycle of change developed and deployed to network devices in global fulfillment centers; our systems span over 100,000 Amazonians and hundreds of thousands of IP enabled devices.

In this role, you will partner with Systems Engineers, Network Engineers and Software Engineers globally to develop simple and efficient technology that supports Amazon’s fulfillment network. You will work with a wide variety of technologies and projects that range from third party enterprise solutions to open source and proprietary inventions. Technicians and Engineers worldwide will look to you for mentorship, guidance and solutions to complex business problems that are truly unique to Amazon. We value performance, simplicity, and scalability in our designs. In your day-to-day work you will focus on automation of complex tasks to allow our business to scale with customer demand, and let your fellow engineers to focus on complex problems rather than mundane tasks.

Key job responsibilities

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you will take your technical experience to create new and enhance existing frameworks for managing change on Amazon network devices. These critical frameworks will make it faster and easier than ever for customers to manage change on the network devices. If you have a passion for network management applications, and making it easy to build generic toolkits, this is an ideal position for you. This role will allow you to push the boundaries by thinking big of what customers can do by driving efficient and scalable solutions. You will focus on writing software that manages change on variety of network devices, giving you scale to solve multiple use cases at once. You will be challenged to create OS agnostic services and tools, while also optimizing for performance and ease of use by customers.

Ideal candidates will use their experience to clearly communicate and translate requirements into elegant solutions. You will work in a reactive, flexible and partnering peer environment.

A day in the life

You will be a part of an agile development team following innovative best practices in software development where you will work on technical designs, architecture and coding. To build our applications, you will interact with network engineering teams to gather requirements, provide technical solutions and develop the software that are required in defining our next generation products.

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options

3. Paid Time Off (PTO)

4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

About the team

Our team exists to enable network engineers to self-serve manage the lifecycle of change on network devices running in all fullfilment centers. We are responsible for delivering application frameworks and foundational pieces that are critical for change management and we do so by showing the utmost customer obsession. As a part of Network Configuration Lifecycle Management team, you’ll get to interact and work with multiple teams to develop an ecosystem end to end covering product conception to shipping on the vast number of Amazon devices in the field.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Austin, TX, USA

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

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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.