Software Dev Engineer II, ICON

Software Development Engineer

Do you want to ensure a delightful shopping experience for millions of Amazon.com customers every day? The Intelligent Cloud Hosting (ICON) team is looking for a software development engineer who is passionate about working on the development of innovative software products that will help boost engineers' productivity in Amazon and improve services' posture towards security, availability, efficiency, compliance, and maintainability. We aim to eliminate vast quantities of undifferentiated and often tedious work for Amazon development teams - our opportunity for impact to tens of thousands of developers is enormous.

Key job responsibilities as a software development engineer in the ICON team include working on the development of next-generation managed hosting platform technologies. You will lead the design, implementation, and successful delivery of large-scale services. You will be influencing your team's technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach. You will work side-by-side with strategic technical stakeholders and customers to develop new products that meet the needs of the Amazon e-commerce platform. You will partner with multiple teams to come up with novel ways to make our retail website more secure and available for Amazon customers. You will solve complex yet fun challenges by looking at the big picture while diving deep.

The right candidate will possess proven software engineering skills, with the experience of creating and launching large-scale distributed systems with the help of a team. You are expected to be versatile, able to thrive in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, and eager to mentor junior engineers. You are comfortable managing competing priorities and are able to bring order to ambiguous scenarios. Maturity, impeccable judgment, and the ability to influence and lead are essential to success in this role. You are data-driven and analytical. You can clearly and effectively communicate (written as well as verbally) across teams.

A day in the life as a software development engineer on this team will include playing a pivotal role in shaping the definition, vision, design, roadmap, and development of innovative software products that will help boost engineers' productivity in Amazon, for improving services' posture towards security, availability, efficiency, compliance, and maintainability. Key responsibilities include working with the team to help drive business decisions, designing, implementing, testing, deploying, and maintaining innovative software solutions to drive services optimizations, cost, and security. You will provide insightful code reviews and take ownership of outcomes. You will use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables. You will write high-quality distributed system software and work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.

About the team: The ICON team hosts Amazon websites and backend platform services that power the customer experience. We abstract and centralize the infrastructure management from service teams, bring agility to business processes, and manage the infrastructure of 100s of Tier-1 services. The ICON team is located within the Intelligent Control (ICC) organization, which owns connecting our worldwide websites and other consumer experiences such as Kindle, Amazon Video, and Alexa to the internet, as well as ensuring the highest level of availability, security, and privacy of the web services that power the experience we deliver to our customers worldwide.