Software Dev Engineer II, Global WHS

At Amazon, the Leadership Principle "Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer" challenges us to create a safer, more productive, higher-performing, diverse, and just work environment. It reinforces the operating principle that nothing is more important than the safety and well-being of our global workforce. At Workplace Health and Safety (WHS), we strive to achieve this every day. We understand that people are at the center of safety, and we invest in talent that shares our passion for improving the safety of our global workforce. The WHS Tech team works on technology solutions such as sensor-based Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, web applications in native AWS, Generative AI based applications, and Computer Vision applications to enhance the safety of the global Operations workforce. If creating industry-first products and solutions interests you, then this is the team for you!

We are seeking smart, passionate engineers to own and manage these strategic initiatives. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, and will move quickly with a high degree of ownership. As a member of this team, you will have opportunities to work on a wide array of technologies and build scalable, reliable products for the global network. You will build on top of Amazon’s extensive development infrastructure, leverage internal tools and community to learn and grow your technical skills, and drive impact on critical outcomes that are important to Amazon.

Key job responsibilities
1. Lead the entire product lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, release, and maintenance of highly scalable distributed software systems.
2. Identify and enhance team processes and best practices, influence technical direction, drive operational excellence, and maintain quality standards for team deliverables.
3. Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Technical Program Managers, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver new product features.
4. Mentor and develop junior engineers, demonstrating best development practices and providing constructive feedback.
5. Possess strong written and verbal communication skills.

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
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Preferred qualifications

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Master's degree in Computer Science
- Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing

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