Software Dev Engineer (DevOps), Amazon Prime Air

Do you want to solve real customer problems through innovative technology? Do you enjoy working on scalable services in a collaborative team environment? Do you want to see your code directly impact millions of customers worldwide?

At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. Customer obsession is part of our company DNA, which has made us one of the world's most beloved brands.

Our Software Development Engineers (SDEs) use modern technology to solve complex problems while seeing their work's impact first-hand. The challenges SDEs solve at Amazon are meaningful and influence millions of customers, sellers, and products globally. We seek individuals passionate about creating new products, features, and services while managing ambiguity in an environment where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years.

At Amazon, we believe in ownership at every level. As an SDE-I, you'll own the entire lifecycle of your code - from design through deployment and ongoing operations. This ownership mindset, combined with our commitment to operational excellence, ensures we deliver the highest quality solutions for our customers.

We're looking for curious minds who think big and want to define tomorrow's technology. At Amazon, you'll grow into the high-impact engineer you know you can be, supported by a culture of learning and mentorship. Every day brings exciting new challenges and opportunities for personal growth.

Key job responsibilities
- Own end-to-end production backend systems including databases, automated data pipelines, and processing services, ensuring high availability, security, and performance at Prime Air drone delivery scale.

- Design, build, and maintain software build, test, and deployment pipelines that enable rapid, safe, and reliable delivery of software changes to production.

- Architect and operate scalable data infrastructure on AWS (Aurora Serverless PostgreSQL, Lambda, Step Functions, S3, SQS, EventBridge, RDS Proxy, CloudWatch, IAM, Permission Management) handling large volumes of drone operational data with guaranteed data integrity and efficient processing.

- Drive infrastructure-as-code practices using CDK and CloudFormation, automating provisioning, configuration, and scaling of backend services across multiple environments.

- Demonstrate operational excellence through proactive monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues with a bias toward automation and self-healing systems.

- Design and develop scalable solutions using cloud-native architectures and microservices in a large distributed computing environment.

- Build and maintain resilient distributed systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, and cost-effective.

- Champion DevOps culture by breaking down silos between development and operations, advocating for observability, reliability, and continuous improvement across the team.

- Collaborate and communicate effectively with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians (Engineering and Science) to design, build, and operate innovative products and services that delight our customers, while participating in technical discussions to drive solutions forward.

- Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical documentation.

- Write clean, maintainable code following best practices and design patterns.

- Leverage and contribute to the development of GenAI and AI-powered tools to enhance development productivity while staying current with emerging technologies.

- Work in an agile environment practicing CI/CD principles while participating in operational responsibilities including on-call duties.

- Continuously improve system reliability and efficiency through capacity planning, performance profiling, cost optimization, and security hardening .