Software Development Engineer, Amazon Games

Job Description

Amazon Games is looking for a Software Developer Engineer to join a new and energetic team building the central web systems and tools for our games. In this role, you will deliver large scale services and build innovative systems to support our games. You will have the power of AWS cloud to build amazing experiences for players, streamers and creators. If you love games and are excited about making a big impact in the game industry, we're looking for you!

Key job responsibilities
- Work closely with Game Teams and our Player Experience Team to build scalable services that support our Game and Web experiences
- Work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technologies and evaluate technical feasibility
- Focus on operational excellence, constructively identify problems and propose solutions
- Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews

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

Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of full stack development experience
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Good communication skills; fast learner with ability to adapt quickly to a fast-paced development environment

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d5n5z1-216-73-216-71-42 in your application.