Amazon is Hiring SDE-1 | Software Development Engineer | Hyderabad

Job Description

Amazon is hiring Software Development Engineers (SDE-1) for its Hyderabad development center on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract. This opportunity is ideal for software engineers with at least one year of professional software development experience who are passionate about distributed systems, scalable applications, cloud technologies, algorithms, and solving complex engineering challenges. If you're looking to build products that impact millions of customers worldwide, this role offers an outstanding platform to grow your engineering career.

As an SDE-1, you will collaborate with experienced Amazon engineers to design, develop, and deploy highly scalable distributed systems, build innovative software solutions, optimize large-scale services, and contribute to mission-critical applications that power Amazon's global technology ecosystem.

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲: Amazon
𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞: Software Development Engineer (SDE-1)
𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞: On-Site
𝐉𝐨𝐛 𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞: Full-Time (12-Month Fixed Term Contract)
𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞: 1+ Years

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐨𝐧

Amazon is one of the world's largest technology companies, serving millions of customers through e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, artificial intelligence, and enterprise technology solutions. Driven by its customer-first philosophy, Amazon continuously builds innovative products and scalable platforms that transform how people shop, work, and interact with technology.

Its engineering teams solve large-scale distributed computing problems using modern software architectures, cloud infrastructure, machine learning, and high-performance systems. Engineers at Amazon work on technologies that operate at global scale while building solutions that directly impact customers around the world.

𝐉𝐨𝐛 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰

As a Software Development Engineer (SDE-1), you will design, develop, and maintain scalable software systems while working with experienced engineers across multiple technical domains. You'll build distributed applications, develop cloud-based services, solve complex engineering challenges, and deliver high-quality software using Agile development practices.

This role provides hands-on experience with distributed computing, scalable storage systems, cloud technologies, software architecture, algorithms, and enterprise-scale application development, with opportunities for permanent employment based on performance.

Roles & Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable software applications and distributed systems.

- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to build innovative products and services.

- Design and implement reliable, fault-tolerant, and high-performance software solutions.

- Build distributed storage, indexing, and query systems for large-scale applications.

- Solve complex software engineering challenges with scalable architectures.

- Write clean, maintainable, and high-quality production code.

- Participate in Agile software development, code reviews, testing, and deployment.

- Optimize system performance, reliability, and scalability.

- Contribute to the design and architecture of mission-critical software platforms.

- Continuously improve software quality through engineering best practices.

Qualifications & Eligibility

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or an equivalent technical discipline.

- Minimum 1 year of professional software development experience (excluding internships).

- Proficiency in at least one programming language.

- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

- Understanding of software engineering fundamentals and data structures.

- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative Agile environment.

Skills Required

- Software Development

- Data Structures

- Algorithms

- Object-Oriented Programming

- Distributed Systems

- Scalable System Design

- Programming Languages

- REST APIs

- Problem Solving

- System Design

- Agile Development

- Debugging

- Software Testing

- Communication Skills

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬

- Cloud Computing

- Distributed Computing

- AWS

- Microservices

- Multithreading

- Database Systems

- Linux

- High-Performance Computing

- Software Architecture

- Scalability Engineering

- Version Control (Git)

- Continuous Integration & Deployment (CI/CD)

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐨𝐧?

- Build products and platforms used by millions of customers worldwide.

- Solve challenging engineering problems at massive scale.

- Work alongside experienced software engineers and technology leaders.

- Gain hands-on experience with distributed systems and cloud technologies.

- Contribute to innovative products that shape the future of technology.

- Learn through mentorship, engineering best practices, and real-world projects.

- Opportunity to transition into a permanent Software Development Engineer role based on performance.

𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬

This role provides an excellent foundation for careers such as:

- Software Development Engineer

- Backend Software Engineer

- Cloud Engineer

- Distributed Systems Engineer

- Platform Engineer

- Application Developer

- Full Stack Developer

- Systems Engineer

- Senior Software Engineer

- Solutions Architect

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲?

- Software engineers with at least one year of professional development experience.

- Developers passionate about building scalable distributed systems.

- Candidates interested in cloud computing and enterprise software development.

- Professionals seeking hands-on experience with large-scale technology platforms.

- Engineers looking to build a long-term career at one of the world's leading technology companies.