What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Dev Engineer, AWS Kumo position at Amazon Web Services, Inc.?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world leader in providing a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. You will be at the forefront of cloud technologies with interactions across the full breadth of AWS services.
Job Description:
You will work closely with the rest of the development team to build distributed systems for our customers. Our team, Collaborative Intelligence Technologies (CIT), is responsible for developing software and services to deliver knowledge management solutions to AWS customers and worldwide teams so that our customers can find the right information at the right time.
Key Responsibilities:
- Participate in the full development life cycle, working within broadly defined parameters, including test plan execution and software quality needs.
- Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system or application, on small to midsize complex projects.
- Build software solutions where the problem is not well defined. Design and define the interaction between the software components and other systems where applicable.
- Be a technical leader & driver for high standards and implementing best practices.
- Build highly scalable, cloud-native applications using services like AWS API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, AWS Neptune, and Elasticsearch.
About the Team:
Our team values diverse experiences and welcomes candidates from all backgrounds. We believe that everyone deserves equal opportunities, regardless of their career path or experiences.
Why AWS:
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Work/Life Balance:
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture.
Inclusive Team Culture:
Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empowers us to be proud of our differences.
Mentorship and Career Growth:
We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
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
- 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
