AWS Utility Computing (UC)
We provide product innovations, from foundational services such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that set AWS's services and features apart in the industry.
Job Summary
As a member of the UC organization, you will support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
About Amazon Lex
Amazon Lex is a platform for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. It provides advanced deep learning functionalities of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text.
The Team
You will be part of a well-balanced team with diverse experience that is making strides in evolving the conversational platform for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The team operates in a fast-paced and fun environment where accuracy, timeliness, quality, and security form the operative cornerstones.
Your Responsibilities
Come work on new features as well as green-field projects where you can make a significant positive impact on a community of international customers. You will practice development practices such as load testing and continuous deployment while solving technical challenges in system design, distributed computing, algorithms, and back-end services.
About the Role
Software Engineers at Amazon do so much more than just software development. You will help:
* Decide what features to build.
* Drive software engineering best practices.
* Design distributed and scalable systems.
* Test and document the software you develop.
About Us
Diverse Experiences: AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.
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.
About Our 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. Ongoing events and learning experiences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & 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.
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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- 5+ 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