Software Development Engineer, AWS AppSync

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 3+ 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

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/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. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
AWS AppSync is looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer to help us build and expand our highly-scalable, managed GraphQL service. After launching in 2018, our service has grown rapidly and now serves thousands of developers, including individuals, small startups, and large enterprises. We are looking for engineers who want to build software operating at the cutting edge of the industry to power mobile apps, web sites, and backend applications.
You will work with an exceptional team to solve hard problems and learn new skills. You’ll have opportunities to work with and learn from best-in-industry senior engineering talent. In addition to the technical challenges provided by the innovative use cases that we are working on, you will also learn how to build a service that meets AWS’s high bar for availability, scalability, and security.

You’ll have a direct line to our customers’ experience and a direct means to improving it. On a daily basis, you’ll work with teammates to review each other’s code, mentor and be mentored, and create and implement system designs for the future of AppSync. You’ll have an opportunity to lead from day one, from leading projects, to driving technical processes, to selecting programming languages and frameworks, to teaching and learning from your teammates.

Learn and Be Curious. We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, job level etc. Your manager can also help you find a mentor or two, because two is better than one. In addition to formal mentors, we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members.

Inclusion and Diversity. Our team is diverse! We drive towards an inclusive culture and work environment. We are intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Team members are active in Amazon’s 10+ affinity groups, sometimes known as employee resource groups, which bring employees together across businesses and locations around the world. These range from groups such as the Black Employee Network, Latinos at Amazon, Indigenous at Amazon, Families at Amazon, Amazon Women and Engineering, LGBTQ+, Warriors at Amazon (Military), Amazon People With Disabilities, and more.

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Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for developing and driving the future direction of the AppSync backend services, along with its console user interface and other developer tools. You’ll meet with customers to help understand their use cases and make sure we maintain Amazon’s commitment to start from the customer and work backwards. You’ll help manage and operate our systems, using best-in-industry continuous-integration-and-deployment tools.

A day in the life
Within 1 month, you will:

- Learn about Amazon culture and AWS best practices.
- Dive deep into AppSync's code base and architecture
- Work with your onboarding mentor to contribute your first code changes and help answer customer questions
- Meet the rest of the AWS AppSync organization.

Within 3 months, you will:

- Participate in the team’s Weekly Operations Review and understand the key metrics that drive our product.
- Gain more experience building and releasing your first end-to-end feature.
- Work with your manager to understand how to grow your career at AWS and how to build a career growth plan
- Become an active participant in all stages of our software development cycle, including planning meetings and customer briefings.

Within 12 months, you will:

- Become a subject matter expert in one of the product areas and deliver new features end-to-end.
- Help drive the team’s Weekly Operations Review to prioritize operation improvements
- With with other engineers to improve our operations effectiveness by designing new systems, and making our current ones more effective.
- Help onboard new engineers and guide them in their first weeks at AWS.