Job Description
DESCRIPTION
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.
About the team
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. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
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.
Inclusive Team 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 empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, 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. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
Job Tags
Full time, Internship,