Software Dev Engineer II

Join us to design and build scalable software solutions that power document storage consolidation across Amazon's e-commerce foundation. You'll lead strategic initiatives that span multiple teams, solving complex business problems while working with modern AWS technologies and development practices.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and develop high-quality, scalable software solutions using AWS technologies and modern development practices
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze and solve complex business problems
- Create comprehensive documentation and technical specifications for software systems
- Conduct thorough code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement of development processes
- Implement and maintain robust testing strategies to ensure software reliability and performance
A day in the life
As a Software Dev Engineer II, you'll focus on architecting and implementing solutions that streamline how we manage and consolidate document storage at scale. You might start your day reviewing design proposals with cross-functional partners, then shift into hands-on coding to build robust features using AWS services. You'll participate in code reviews that help elevate our team's technical standards, collaborate with colleagues to troubleshoot complex challenges, and document your technical decisions so others can learn from your approach. Beyond your core development work, you'll contribute to our testing strategies and help shape how we think about reliability and performance across our systems.
About the team
We're a collaborative group of engineers committed to strengthening Amazon's e-commerce infrastructure through thoughtful, scalable solutions. Our team values bringing your authentic perspective to the work we do, and we're focused on consolidating and optimizing how document storage works across the organization. You'll work alongside engineers, architects, and product partners who are invested in solving real business challenges together. We're building toward a future where our systems are more efficient, reliable, and easier to maintain—and we're looking for someone who wants to be part of that mission and help us get there.
- 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
- 3+ years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops) experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 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
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