Amazon's Career Choice program is building a world-class engineering team to support over 1M Amazon employees across 14 countries pursue further education opportunities. This team is delivering at the highest standards of software and data engineering while delivering on an amazing mission at a scale that cannot be matched by any other company on the planet.

The program offers the 1M+ Amazon fulfillment center employees opportunities to complete their GED, pursue language education, as well as Associate and Bachelors degrees, whether they stay at Amazon or not! Few companies in the world have the scale and reach Amazon does to make societal impact and with your help, this engineering team will be blazing new horizons to achieve this overall mission!

As a Software Development Engineer on the team you will...

• take ownership over the software design, documentation, development, engineering approach,
• deliver and support of new products built natively in AWS
• build serverless architectures with event-driven use-cases for real-time synchronization between multiple sub-systems
• integrate your work with the data engineering team for future machine-learning-driven use-cases

You're a perfect fit for this role if you have...

• broad array of experiences
• exceptional design skills
• excellent ability to solve problems
• good communication skills
• a desire to be a key technical contributor.

The software you will be responsible for will require a breadth of technical development knowledge (i.e. serverless architecture, event-driven design, continuous deployment technologies to name a few). Daily work will involve interacting with engineers, stakeholders, and managers.

Key job responsibilities

• Envision, design and develop tools, frameworks and testing infrastructure to facilitate the testing by multiple teams in the Amazon Career Choice portfolio.
• Collaborating with development teams and your team peers to identify and prioritize opportunities for automation.
• Lead and actively participate in design, test planning and product design reviews, aligning teams across organization towards coherent testing strategy.
• Define and gather the necessary metrics to collect across deployment pipelines to make the production release more predictable
• Actively participate in employee hiring and development process.

A day in the life
You will work on exciting new product spaces while interacting with senior software engineers, data engineers, SDE-Test engineers, Sr. product managers, and regularly have visibility with senior leadership.

You'll work closely with with Product managers who gathers requirements from end customer interactions. You will coordinate with senior engineers to translate business requirements to engineering requirements.

You will engineer systems to handle the scale requirements of 1M+ employees engaging with your product across 14 different countries and numerous languages.

You will work across the full-stack of software, frontend to backend, as well as develop CI/CD automation where necessary.

About the team
This team operates fully virtually with the exception of 2-3x / year having a full team off-site where we gather for team-building and roadmap alignment.

The Amazon Career Choice engineering team obsesses over bringing top-quality engineering practices to serve a mission: offer the highest quality up-skilling opportunities to the 1 million Amazon employees in our fulfillment centers.

Some things to know:

• We currently partner with a variety of engineering teams including QA teams, core framework teams, and sister product teams
• The team is fully virtual, only gathering together 1-2x/year
• The product offering has recently been approved for significant expansion, this role will lay the groundwork for supporting that

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline.
• 4+ years industry experience as a Software Engineer or Software Developer.
• Software Engineer or Software Developer experience with search engine technologies and tools such as Elasticsearch and Kibana.
• Familiarity with professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing and operations.
• Experience mentoring junior software engineers or software developers in all aspects of their engineering duties.
• Experience communicating with users, software development engineering teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features and technical designs.

The pay range for this position in Jersey City is $143,700 - 194,400/yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. This information is provided per the Pay Transparency Regulation of Jersey City Municipal Code. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via Amazon's internal or external careers site.

The pay range for this position in Colorado is $143,700 - 194,400/yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. This information is provided per the Colorado Equal Pay Act. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via Amazon's internal or external careers site.

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.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workers in New York City who perform in-person work or interact with the public in the course of business must show proof they have been fully vaccinated against COVID or request and receive approval for a reasonable accommodation, including medical or religious accommodation.