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Amazon Software Development Engineer, Package Builder Services in Seattle, Washington
Description
Build the infrastructure that builds Amazon. Join the Package Builder Services and work on distributed systems processing millions of build requests and tasks daily and manages the storage of exa-byte scale artifacts and the well loved build website.
As an SDE II, you'll be responsible in solving challenging distributed system problems, delivering key customer asks and adapt the the tool-chain in this increasingly fast-paced development environment.
What You'll Do:
Own critical components of Amazon's Tier-1 build infrastructure
Design and implement core components for orchestrating build tasks and releasing build requests.
Infrastructure management for delivering billions of build artifacts world wide.
Working with Amazon builders directly to intake new features and functionality into the system.
Scale systems handling 2-3x growth while maintaining high performance and availability
Debug complex distributed systems issues
Mentor teammates on operational excellence and system architecture
We're looking for engineers who thrive on making systems faster, more reliable, and more secure at Amazon scale.
Key job responsibilities
Participate in on-call rotation, solving difficult customer and operational problems while addressing root causes over short-term workarounds
Deliver high-quality, maintainable code with comprehensive test automation (unit and integration testing)
Review code, mentor teammates, and train new engineers on system architecture, testing practices, and operational procedures
Work with legacy and modern technologies, making appropriate trade-offs to leave systems better and easier to maintain
Communicate status and changes to stakeholders, keeping all informed of updates to plans and deliverables
About the team
We power Amazon's Brazil Build System - a Tier-1 platform processing 25 million tasks daily across thousands of build requests. Every AWS and SDO engineer depends on us to transform source code into deployment-ready artifacts.
Our stack: BEAR(BuildExecutionandReleaseService) sits at the heart of the amazon build system and is responsible for managing concepts such as VersionSets and build task orchestration. BMDS(BrazilMetaDataService) that is one of the main services for reporting package and versionset information. PCLS/VSFLS/BrazilCDN high throughput federation for artifact access world wide. PBW (Package Builder Website) is the main entry point UI for the brazil build system that thousands use everyday.
The challenge: maintain 99.99% availability at massive scale while continuously optimizing performance, mitigating risks, and solving complex distributed systems problems. Your code directly impacts thousands of developers and Amazon's deployment velocity.
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.
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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, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually