Sr. Software Engineer, Amazon QuickSight

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000

Job description

Sr. Software Engineer, Amazon QuickSight

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

If you enjoy solving complex problems, building services used by millions of users, proudly standing behind the services you built, and continuously innovating to delight customers, you should keep reading.

At Amazon QuickSight, we are redefining the way people and businesses make data-informed decisions at scale. We build secure, simple, and scalable solutions to empower our customers and users to collaborate and share insights easily and quickly. Thus, we are looking for aspiring engineers to join our journey.

We are looking for a seasoned engineer who is first and foremost security-minded. You would bring years of experience designing, building, and operating large distributed systems with an extremely high bar for security, availability, reliability, and resiliency. You also have experience driving large and ambiguous initiatives, bringing clarity to align stakeholders with well-defined success criteria, and seeing that through inception to completion. You will also proactively grow the engineering community and mentor other engineers.

If this sounds like you, we are keen to learn more from you.

Key Job Responsibilities

1. Shape up the security engineering culture and developer experience, promote secure architecture and tooling.
2. Influence both technical and product direction. Partner with stakeholders to drive large and complex initiatives.
3. Improve the quality of the whole SDLC such as design, implementation, testing, and operation.
4. Design, implement, and deliver solutions that are secure, reliable, and scalable.
5. Contribute to the engineering community by mentoring other engineers.

About the Team

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 empowers 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.

Minimum Requirements

1. 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
2. 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
3. 5+ years of experience leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems.
4. Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
5. 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
6. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
7. Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence.