COMPLETE Software Development Engineer - London

Job Description

Would you like to help implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve the most complex technical problems? Are you excited by the prospect of designing, building and evolving the world's largest cloud computing infrastructure to provide a better world for future generations?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) conceives, builds and operates some of the largest internet infrastructure on the planet; providing companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS, customers provision compute power, storage, database, and other cloud resources as their business demands them. To meet the growing demand for AWS Services around the globe, we need exceptionally motivated people who are driven by learning and innovation.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a world-class team in a dynamic environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain world class experience in cloud computing. You'll be surrounded by people who are passionate about cloud computing, believe that first class service is critical to customer success, and are committed to improvement.

Top reasons to join our team:

 Be a catalyst to deliver a truly disruptive products that are growing rapidly
 Define, build, own, and run a service in high growth environment
 Solve unique and first-order problems in massive-scale areas such as compute services, DynamoDB/NoSQL databases, Glacier and S3 data lakes, and many other AWS Services
 Learn how to build and operate distributed systems at massive scale
 Build and influence the tools and utilities that are part of the AWS fleet running our internal services

Key job responsibilities
WHAT DOES A SOFTWARE ENGINEER DO AT AMAZON?

Amazon has a collaborative, purposeful and enthusiastic environment where we “Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History.” On a typical day engineers might deep dive to root cause a customer issue, investigate why a metric is trending the wrong way, consult with the top engineers at Amazon, or discuss radical new approaches to automate operational issues.

As a software engineer in Amazon, you will have technical ownership of your designs and services. Responsibilities include designing, coding, reviewing, testing, fixing, researching, deploying and maintaining services and code in Amazon cloud production environments.

A day in the life
The Role:

We are looking for software engineers who use technology to solve problems in collaboration with team members. You may create or have responsibility to improve or invent small tools or components. You will have the ability to take a defined design and turn it into code and deliver it on schedule, using appropriate technologies and seeking input and guidance from senior engineers in the team. You will write secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects. You may also be part of an on-call rotation within your team and, in the event of problems, are able to troubleshoot, research the root cause and thoroughly resolve defects.

About the team
Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Harmony

Our team also puts a high value on work-life harmony. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and detailed and constructive code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

London, GBR

Basic Qualifications:

- 1+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, or experience in software development
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Demonstrable problem-solving skills and ability to articulate real world problem into technical solutions

Preferred Qualifications:

- 1+ years of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis) experience
- 1+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience building/enhancing software that has been delivered to production systems

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.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need an adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please contact the Applicant-Candidate Accommodation Team (ACAT), Monday through Friday from 7:00 am GMT - 4:00 pm GMT. If calling directly from the United Kingdom, please dial +44 800 086 9884 (tel:+448000869884). If calling from Ireland, please dial +353 1800 851 489 (tel:+3531800851489).