Software Development Engineer II, AWS Amplify Data Plane

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced and passionate Senior Software Development Engineer to join the AWS Amplify Data-Plane team. AWS Amplify is a full-stack platform designed to simplify the creation, deployment, and management of modern web and mobile applications. You will have the opportunity to shape direct Customer experience by enabling the Rust-based data-plane with features and improvements for developers.

Key job responsibilities
Lead backend data-plane architecture design for large-scale applications, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build intuitive user experiences for developers deploying full-stack web and mobile applications on AWS Amplify.

Mentor junior engineers, contribute to code reviews, and help foster a culture of innovation and engineering excellence.

Work closely with partners and peers to implement and enhance features that provide a delightful and efficient developer experience.

Stay current with industry trends and best practices, continually improving processes and technologies used in software development.

Participate in the end-to-end deployment lifecycle of features, from ideation to monitoring performance in production environments.

A day in the life
As a Senior Development Engineer on this team, you will work closely with product managers, UX designers, and back-end engineers to create seamless, performant, and scalable front-end solutions that empower developers to build better apps faster. You will design and develop features that empower customer web sites and applications directly.

About the team
At AWS Amplify, we're working to build a set of tools and services that can be used together or on their own, to help front-end web and mobile developers build scalable, full stack applications, powered by AWS. With Amplify, you can configure app backends and connect your app in minutes, deploy static web apps in a few clicks, and easily manage app content outside the AWS console.

Amplify supports popular web frameworks including JavaScript, React, Angular, Vue, Next.js, and mobile platforms including Android, iOS, React Native, Ionic, and Flutter.

We're right at the start of a comprehensive roadmap to deliver the functionality and features our customers are asking for and delight them with functionality they couldn't even imagine. We're passionate about what our customers are building, so we can offer them the right tools to be successful. If you are as passionate as us about app development and providing developers with the latest and greatest tools to build and host their apps, join the AWS Amplify team!

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