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Description
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world leader in providing a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers tens of thousands of businesses worldwide! The Messaging team owns and operates Simple Notification Service (SNS) and Simple Queue Service(SQS), which provides AWS customers with the cloud infrastructure for building highly scalable, asynchronous and fault tolerant cloud applications. It’s a core architectural component of the critical for Amazon and many leading global enterprises running on AWS. If you are passionate about the challenges of big scale, building cutting edge technologies and making developing distributed applications easy and reliable then the AWS Messaging team is for you.
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to help refine roadmaps and technical direction, and follow through with detailed architecture, design, and excellent code, and to drive operation excellence of a massive scale (think multi-million TPS) distributed system.
How do you know if you are a good fit for us? You are fascinated by and want to innovate in distributed fault-tolerant systems that operate at scale. You love customers. When our customers ask for the next big feature, you know this means you’ll be able to truly dig into the solution and get it done right. You love owning the project from idea to production, delivering not only in the implementation but in all phases from the kernel of an idea to quickly getting code into production. You enjoy collaborating with your teammates. You love working in agile programming environments and running fast to deliver evolution for your AWS services.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Vancouver, BC, CAN
Basic Qualifications
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3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
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2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
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Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred Qualifications
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3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
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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, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.
The base salary for this position ranges from $114,800/year up to $191,800/year. Salary is based on a number of factors 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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
