Software Development Engineer II, SES

Description

As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon's unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions.

Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

Come and build the future with us as we redefine the email communication experience for people and applications!

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is on a mission to revolutionize email experiences for our customers and their end users. We are at the forefront of creating richer, more engaging email functionalities, innovating at every step to provide a seamless, unified experience.

As a Software Development Engineer for Amazon SES, you'll work on backend and customer-facing systems, contributing to the development and improvement of our email services. You'll focus on building reliable and scalable solutions, collaborating with other engineers to solve complex technical challenges, and ensuring our services are highly available and scalable to meet the needs of our global customer base.

As a member of the SES engineering team, your job will allow you to work with customers and other technology leaders at Amazon to translate strategic business needs into features and projects, with an opportunity to participate in strategic planning, contributing to the overall direction of the service.

Leadership and Culture-Building:

In Amazon everyone is a leader. You will contribute to fostering a culture of creativity and openness. Your work will encourage innovation and growth, and you will play a role in mentoring and supporting your colleagues. Knowledge sharing and professional development are important, and you'll be part of a team that values these elements.

On-Call Responsibility:

This position involves on-call responsibilities. We don't like being paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault-tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we aren't paged for the same issue twice.

About the team

ABOUT AWS:

Diverse Experiences

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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. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

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 empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity and Amaze Con conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

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+…