Software Development Engineer, Special Projects

Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company"s Think Big leadership principle to the next level. We focus on creating entirely new biotechnology products and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. If you"re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will work with a unique and gifted team developing exciting products for consumers and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Our team rewards intellectual curiosity while maintaining a laser-focus in bringing products to market. Competitive candidates are responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, startup-like environment. You"ll have the opportunity to work alongside some of the most talented scientists, engineers, and product managers to build innovative, customer-facing solutions.

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We are constantly learning through programs that are local, regional, and global. Amazon"s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Our team highly values work-life balance, mentorship and career growth. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects and offer training that will challenge you to become your best.

Key job responsibilities

• Deliver features and improvements to major portions of the codebase, working closely with stakeholders and peers to understand customer problems and ensure you build the right solutions
• Operate across the software stack from backend data pipelines to user-facing interfaces
• Tackle difficult problems with visible risks, bringing clarity and identifying simple solutions while understanding customer impact
• Design software solutions to enable new features or improve existing ones, aligning with your team"s long-term architectural strategy
• Demonstrate operational excellence in all of your work, actively participating in operational support and ensuring root causes of issues are identified and resolved
• Earn trust with design, product, and engineering partners, demonstrating empathy, candor, and backbone through all levels of communication
• Implement engineering excellence mechanisms like CI/CD pipelines, alarming and monitoring solutions, raise the bar on security and systems resilience

A day in the life

• Designing and implementing innovative features and experiences that delight users
• Collaborating closely with applied scientists, designers, product managers, and other engineers to turn concepts into high-quality, scalable code
• Working across the full software development lifecycle, including scoping, UX review, code implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
• Utilizing common UI design patterns to decrease friction between the customer and software
• Balancing speed of execution with architectural requirements and user experience considerations
• Continuously learning and expanding your skills to keep pace with evolving technologies and customer needs