Software Development Engineer

About Amazon Web Services (AWS) Transform

More and more enterprise companies are moving to the cloud to reduce technical debt and focus on innovation. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is investing heavily to ensure we continue delivering the world’s best customer experience for complex, large-scale transformations. If you're energized by the opportunity to accelerate one of the most impactful technology shifts of our time, join us. The AWS Transform team in Tel Aviv is growing.

AWS Transform is a strategic initiative focused on helping enterprise customers modernize and migrate their compute, storage, and networking infrastructure into the cloud, with a strong emphasis on VMware-based environments and traditional on-premises data centers. We build automated, scalable, intelligent, and agentic GenAI-powered solutions that simplify complexity, reduce operational risk, accelerate migration timelines, and unlock long-term agility and cost efficiency for our customers.

Key Responsibilities of a Software Development Engineer

As a Software Development Engineer on the AWS Transform team, you'll be at the heart of designing, building core functions that involve orchestrating hundreds or thousands of systems and legacy workloads, each with unique technical and operational constraints.

• Drive end-to-end system design, implementation, and delivery.
• Play a key technical leadership role on the team, aligning engineering efforts with customer needs.
• Communicate effectively across teams to influence and guide architectural decisions.
• Write high-quality, efficient, and secure code that sets an example for others.
• Mentor teammates through design and code reviews and foster engineering best practices.
• Continuously grow your technical depth and leadership impact as AWS scales.

Why Join AWS?

Diverse Experiences: Amazon values diverse experiences. We encourage all candidates to apply, even if you don't meet every preferred qualification. Your unique career path or alternative experiences are welcome.

Work/Life Balance: We value work-life harmony. Flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture, ensuring success at work doesn't compromise home life.

Inclusive Team Culture: AWS fosters curiosity and connection. Our employee-led affinity groups promote inclusion, empowering individuals and fostering collaborative teams fueled by diverse ideas and perspectives.

Mentorship and Career Growth: We're committed to becoming Earth’s Best Employer. You'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and career-advancing resources to support your professional development.

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.

Key skills/competency

• Cloud Migration
• VMware Environments
• GenAI Solutions
• System Design
• Software Development Lifecycle
• Architectural Design
• Code Quality
• Mentorship
• Scalability
• Distributed Systems