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Job summary
Are you passionate about blockchain and decentralized networks and their potential to transform how people, companies, and governments transact? Do you want to help define the future direction for how Amazon Web Services (AWS) will enable customers to solve problems and innovate with blockchain technology across a wide range of industries and use cases? Come join us as a Developer to work on Blockchain at AWS. This position is offered remote from anywhere in the contiguous United States and Canada, or in-person in Arlington, VA (HQ2). Domestic relocation assistance is available for HQ2.

We are building services to accelerate customers' ability to create and leverage scalable blockchain technology for current and innovative business use cases across DeFi, NFTs, Payments, Supply Chain, Financial Services, Identity, and more. The AWS Organization is looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer who is passionate about building new products and has an entrepreneurial approach to building new services for customers. The ideal candidate for this position has a proven track record of delivering outstanding products at scale and is passionate about blockchain, distributed systems, containers, cryptography, distributed ledgers, and cloud scale software. You would be a core part of defining the technical direction and culture of the team moving forward. This is a great opportunity for you to interact directly with customers and influence definition and design in an emerging space.

Key job responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include:

* Work efficiently and routinely deliver the right things with limited guidance.
* Focus on complex, ambiguous problem areas in existing or new software initiatives.
* Take the long term view.
* Consider where each system is at in its lifecycle and where appropriate, proactively fix architecture deficiencies.
* Are able to take the lead on large projects that require the work of your team.
* Know how to divide a software project into parallel work that can be performed by you and other Engineers and then reassembled successfully into a cohesive launch.

A day in the life
Additionally, you will get to collaborate with some of the best and brightest minds in the industry and join a fast-paced and growing team in one of the most innovative technology companies. Come join us to Work Hard, Have Fun, and Make History!
Inclusive Team Culture

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
Programming experience with at least one software programming language.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field; or at least 5 years equivalent work experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

* Experience working with blockchain frameworks such as Ethereum and the Hyperledger projects
* Very strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, data structures, problem solving, and complexity analysis
* Experience designing and building highly-scaled distributed systems and web services
* Thorough understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, asynchronous architectures
* Experience working in an agile software development organization
* Experience in writing smart contracts for blockchain frameworks
* Experience building with SOA using Java, Go, Rust on Linux
* Experience in enterprise software or cloud services
* Masters degree in Computer Science

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.