Senior Software Development Engineer III, AWS IDEs

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer who is passionate about building services and tools for developers that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning. You will be part of a team owning an AWS service to enhance the developer experience in the Cloud. The team works in close collaboration with other AWS services such as AWS Cloud9, the AWS IDE Toolkit, and AWS Bedrock. If you are excited about working in cloud computing and building future AWS services, then we'd love to talk to you.

Key Responsibilities

• Create new architectures based on business requirements.
• Find innovative and well-maintainable solutions.
• Coach and grow engineers around you by providing feedback, reviewing designs, and giving input on best practices.
• Learn and use modern and advanced technologies.
• Collaborate with internal engineering teams, leading technology companies around the world, and the open-source community.
• Lead cross-team projects and ensure technical blockers are resolved.
• Develop cloud-based solutions that will delight software developers and system administrators globally.
• Create innovative products and see them launched in high-volume production environments.
• Participate in on-call rotation.

A Day in the Life

Work/Life Harmony: Our team values work-life harmony. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, we have adjusted to remote work and established a hybrid work environment in which engineers spend 3 days working in the office, adjusted to the team needs.

Mentorship & Career Growth: We're committed to the growth and development of every team member, including our development managers. As a senior software development engineer, you will play a vital part in growing your peers. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the culture and direction and deliver site-wide initiatives that will improve the life of all of our teams. AWS is a growth environment - we are hiring and scaling rapidly to meet the needs of our customers. You'll have the opportunity to grow your scope of influence naturally as we scale and will get to hire & develop other leaders along the way.

On-call Responsibility: This position involves on-call responsibility. We work as a team to root-cause the issues and ensure our systems are resilient and fault-tolerant.

About The Team

You would work on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Next Gen DevX (NGDE) team where we are going to use generative AI and foundation models to reimagine the experience of all builders on AWS. From the IDE to web-based tools and services, AI will help engineers to work on large and small applications. In this team, we have to explore new technologies and find creative solutions. Curiosity and an explorative mindset can find a place to impact the life of engineers around the world.

If you are excited about this space and want to enlighten your peers with new capabilities, this is the team for you.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
• Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Experience in professional, non-internship software development.
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design.
• Experience in development in the last 3 years.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ 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.
• Experience in the AI/ML space.

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