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Amazon Software Development Engineer, AWS GCR Tech in Beijing, China

Description

Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com Company, has been the world’s leading cloud provider for more than 17 years with the most mature, comprehensive, and broadly adopted cloud platform. We have over 200 fully featured cloud services, managed from 99 availability zones within 31 geographic regions across the globe. Millions of customers in over 240 countries - from the fastest growing start-ups to the largest enterprises, through to leading government agencies - all place their trust in Amazon Web Services to power their infrastructure, and deliver innovation.

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

Amazon Web Services came to China in 2013, and has been relentlessly investing and expanding our infrastructure and business since then. Amazon Web Services launched its China (Beijing) Region (operated by Sinnet) in September 2016 and its China (Ningxia) Region (operated by NWCD) in December 2017. In 2019, Amazon Web Services added a new region in Hong Kong, making China the only country with three Amazon Web Services regions aside from the U.S. In 2022, Amazon Web Services launched Local Zone in Taipei. Amazon Web Services has also established an AI lab in Shanghai and two IoT labs in Shenzhen and Taipei. The Amazon Web Services Partner Network has thousands of Partners in China. Amazon Web Services has supported over 10,000 local startups and has provided cloud skills training to over 700,000 talents. Amazon’s first two utility-scale renewable projects—a solar farm and a wind farm—are also generating clean energy to the country’s grid.

To meet the fast growing demand for Amazon Web Services business in China market, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven software development engineer. If you have a passion for developing the features which can direct contribute to the AWS China business scale up with high efficiency, you’d like to raise up the innovation proposal to improve the daily business operation, you want to join in the passionate team to face the challenge and make the history, we’d like to speak with you.

Key job responsibilities

We are looking for software engineers who are passionate about designing, building and operating brand new services and tools to support AWS China business growth. The services and tools will focus on localization of global solution to China Market and adopt to China customer needs and resolve the China Industry Challenge. It’s important to tackle the challenges, to be creative and to design the applications to meet the business requirement and schedule. You will be seen as a technical leader who is deeply involved in the design discussion with the functional leaders in AWS China and AWS Global service team, and deliver the services/tools on schedule with high quality. The features and tools will have high visibility to the AWS China business teams with significant business impact.

A day in the life

As a member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for the complete software development cycle, including design, implementation, testing, and operations in an agile environment. We are always drive building up the system for AWS China business from scratch, which there is a wide platform for engineers to demonstrate your technical skill to help directly to business and with the visibility from leadership of AWS China and AWS China operation partner. We encourage team member work closely with each other and contribute on the fast pace delivery.

In this role, a commitment to teamwork, customer focus, and strong communication skills (for both technical and business partners) are absolute requirements. We're building reliable, scalable, and high-performance services, so we expect you to have exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, and are eager to work with large-scale distributed systems.

In this role you will work with cross-function team including local business and function team, local operation partner team and several global team which provide support to us to achieve the goal.

Welcome to join Amazon Web Services. Let’s work hard, have fun and make history.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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.

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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

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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.

AWS is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace to deliver the best results for our customers. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status; we celebrate the diverse ways we work. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please let us know and we will connect you to our accommodation team.

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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

Preferred Qualifications

  • 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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