Sr. Software Development Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world leader in providing a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in hundreds of countries around the world! To do this, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people.

NICE is an AWS subsidiary focused on High Performance Computing and remote visualization technologies for the technical computing market. NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that provides customers with a secure way to deliver remote desktops and application streaming from any cloud or data center to any device, over varying network conditions.

With NICE DCV and Amazon EC2, customers can run graphics-intensive applications remotely on EC2 instances, and stream the results to simpler client machines, eliminating the need for expensive dedicated workstations. Customers across a broad range of HPC workloads use NICE DCV for their remote visualization requirements. The NICE DCV streaming protocol is also utilized by popular services, like Amazon AppStream 2.0 and AWS Robomarker.

The engineering team at NICE is searching for talented and passionate software engineers to join the team and help developing innovative technologies on behalf of our customers. NICE is a division where builders can build. From day one, you will be working with experienced engineers and designers who love what they do! You will be able to drive your own learning and development, whilst being supported, guided and coached by your colleagues and manager. Long-term career development opportunities is a huge part of Amazon’s company-wide culture.

Being part of a small and international team means that you will be involved in all aspects of development: from creating elegant designs to developing effective code that solves real customer needs. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain experience in cloud computing. You’ll be surrounded by people who are bright and passionate about all things cloud computing. NICE believes that world class service and great user experiences are critical to customer success.

As a member of the NICE DCV team, you will be making contributions to all our components – the server running on both Windows and Linux, the HTML5 base client, the native client for Windows, Linux and MacOS and other components will are building, but we have not yet announced to our customers. When required, you will be able to contribute back to a number of Open Source products we depend on. As a member of a team who develop technologies used by several Amazon internal and public services, you will be able to collaborate with a multitude of engineers all around the globe.

As a Senior Engineer, you will design and build new features, make performance improvements, identify and investigate new technologies, prototype solutions, and test and review changes, to deliver an exceptional customer experience. Your responsibilities will include mentoring team members, helping with hiring by interviewing new candidates and working with senior leaders to define team’s vision and roadmap. AWS value individual expression, respect different opinions, and work together to create a culture where each of us is able to contribute fully. Our unique backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our ability to achieve Amazon's mission of being Earth's most customer-centered company.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Master's Degree or PhD in Computer Science or related disciplines
· Programming skills in Rust, C# or Python are a significant advantage
· Experience with remote display protocols (Citrix, VNC, HP-RGS, Spice, MS-RDP, PCoIP, etc.)
· Experience with multi-media streaming (RTP, WebRTC, etc.)
· Familiarity with AWS platform
· Contribution to a major open-source project
· Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
· Previous experience with protocol design and implementation
· Ability to work well with people and be both highly motivated and motivating
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Our salaries are negotiable.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
· 5+ years working as software developer
· Prior experience of mentoring Software Engineers / Junior Engineers
· Demonstrable experience of customer-centric development work
· Programming skills with C/C++ and Javascript
· Experience in both Windows and Linux environments
· Experience with hiring and mentorship of engineers
· Proficiency in English