Software Development Engineer II, Intelligent Cloud Hosting (ICON)
- Vancouver, BC
- On-site
- Posted Nov 7, 2026
- 1 position
$114,800–$191,800 / year
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- Employment type
- Full-time
- Minimum education
- Bachelor’s degree
- Posting language
- English
Job summary
You will lead the design, implementation, and delivery of large-scale distributed services to improve developer productivity and infrastructure efficiency. You will collaborate with strategic stakeholders to enhance the security, availability, and maintainability of Amazon's retail platform.
Job details
Do you want to ensure a delightful shopping experience for millions of Amazon.com ( http://amazon.com/) customers everyday? The Intelligent Cloud Hosting (ICON) team is looking for a Software Development Engineer who is passionate to work on the development of innovative software products which will help boost engineers productivity in Amazon and improving services’ posture towards security, availability, efficiency, compliance and maintainability. We aim to eliminate vast quantities of undifferentiated and often tedious work for Amazon development teams - our opportunity for impact to tens of thousands of developers is enormous. Key job responsibilities As a Software Development Engineer in the ICON team, you will working on the development of next generation managed hosting platform technologies. You will lead the design, implementation, and successful delivery of large-scale services. You will be influencing your team’s technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach. You will work side-by-side and collaborate with strategic technical stakeholders and customers to develop new products that meet the needs of the Amazon e-Commerce platform. You will partner with multiple teams to come up with novel ways to make our retail website more secure and available for Amazon customers. You will solve complex yet fun challenges by looking at the big picture while diving deep. The right candidate will possess proven software engineering skills, with the experience of creating and launching large scale distributed systems with the help of a team. You are expected to be versatile, able to thrive in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment and eager to mentor junior engineers. You are comfortable managing competing priorities and are able to bring order to ambiguous scenarios. Maturity, impeccable judgment, and the ability to influence and lead are essential to success in this role. You are data-driven and analytical. You can clearly & effectively communicate (written as well as verbally) across teams. A day in the life As a Software Development Engineer on this team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition, vision, design, roadmap and development of innovative software products which will help boost engineers productivity in Amazon, for improving services’ posture towards security, availability, efficiency, compliance and maintainability. Key responsibilities: - Work with the team to help drive business decisions - Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to drive services optimizations, cost, and security. - You provide insightful code reviews and take ownership of outcome. - Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables - Write high quality distributed system software - Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff. About the team The ICON team hosts Amazon websites and backend platform services that power the customer experience. We abstract and centralize the Infrastructure management from service teams, bring agility to business processes, and manage infrastructure of 100s of Tier-1 services. The ICON team is located within the Intelligent Control (ICC) organization who owns connecting our worldwide websites and other consumer experiences such as Kindle, Amazon Video, and Alexa to the internet, as well as ensuring the highest level of availability, security and privacy of the web services that power the experience we deliver to our customers worldwide. 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 Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations [https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations] for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner. The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status. CAN, BC, Vancouver - 114,800.00 - 191,800.00 CAD annually
What you’ll do
You will lead the design, implementation, and delivery of large-scale distributed services to improve developer productivity and infrastructure efficiency. You will collaborate with strategic stakeholders to enhance the security, availability, and maintainability of Amazon's retail platform.
Requirements
Candidates must have at least 3 years of professional software development experience and 2 years of experience in system design or architecture. Proficiency in at least one programming language and a strong understanding of software engineering best practices are required.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Prescription insurance
- Basic life insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan
- Deferred Profit Sharing Plan
- Paid time off
- Restricted stock units
Listed skills
- Reliability · Preferred
- Agile · Preferred
Other relevant skills
Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.
- Software development
- Distributed systems
- System design
- Architecture
- Cloud hosting
- Reliability
- Scaling
- Code reviews
- Agile
- Mentoring
- Security
- Infrastructure management
- Software engineering
- Deployment
- Optimization
- Business Process
- Agile Methodology
- Operations
- Influencing Skills
- Business Strategies
- Innovation
- Customer Service
- Software Engineering
- Architectural Design
- Computer Science
- Maintainability
- Software Solutions
- Code Review
- Software Development Life Cycle
- Software Development
- Time Off Management
- Medical Prescription
- Business Decisions
- Development Environment
- Infrastructure Management
- Web Services
- Version Control
- Building Codes
- Cloud Hosting
- Restricted Stock
- System Software
- Intelligent Control
Job areas
- Software
- Technology
- Engineering
- Cloud Software Development Engineer
- Cloud Architect
- Systems Analysts
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects
- Computer Occupations, All Other
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