Description

If you are passionate about Cloud development and have experience building critical services at large scale, this is the team/role for you.

Amazon Email Services is looking for an experienced and passionate Software Development Engineer with preferably strong background in cloud platforms. We are using AWS technologies to evolve traditional enterprise tools and services.

In this role, you'll be working on building the next generation scalable and secure enterprise email Eco-system. This service will be scaled to handle billions of messages per year and will offer the world-class experience to more than one million Amazonians across the globe.

Key job responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing and building services that scale for millions of global users.

• Driving new innovation in the email services ecosystem.

• Working as part of a team to deliver new, highly scalable software solutions.

• Expanding your own skills by constantly learning and experimenting with new tools and ideas to evolve your team's processes.

• Own the full stack of our products, from design/architecture to implementation and continuous iterative development.

A day in the life

• Collaborating with project teams across various themes like core platform development, software compliance, and financial optimization.

• Engaging in technical discussions and brainstorming sessions to devise software strategies.

• Active participation in our development sprints, reviewing code, and ensuring the implementation of best practices.

• Interacting with stakeholders, understanding their needs, and translating them into technical solutions.

• Mentoring team members (SDE1), providing guidance, and fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.

• Regularly reviewing and optimizing existing systems and processes for better efficiency and performance.

About the team

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences and are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We offer 13 employee-led affinity groups with 190 global chapters. Some examples include the Amazon Women in Engineering (AWE), People with Disabilities (PwD) and Mental Health and Well-Being (MHW) at Amazon. We host frequent learning experiences to ensure DEI is consistently treated as a priority. We actively recruit people from diverse backgrounds to build a supportive and inclusive workplace, and take steps to ensure employees have a sense of belonging, value, and opportunity.

Our team is dedicated to supporting you with mentorship and pathways for ongoing development. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and are building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and promotes career choice.

The perks of being an Amazon employee don't stop at collaborating with great people on exciting and innovative projects. Amazon’s benefits support the needs of our diverse workforce and their family members, no matter what stage they’re at in their life or career. For more details about benefits, check here https://www.amazon.jobs/en/benefits/global

Basic Qualifications

• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development

• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

• Experience in any internet-facing email services like Postfix, Sendmail, Milter / libmilter etc.

• Experience in Linux based systems or environments

• Deep problem-solving skills and ability to resolve ambiguous requirements

• Strong communication skills and ability to work across multiple disciplines and functions in a team-based environment

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations.