Software Development Engineer AWS Backup

AWS Backup enables customers to centralize and automate protection across AWS services. It offers a costeffective fully managed policybased service that further simplifies protection at scale. AWS Backup also helps our customers to support their regulatory compliance obligations and meets their business continuity goals.

We are looking for a passionate Software Engineer to grow this service and help with adding features and integrations with other AWS services. If you are an application engineer and you have the skills to create large scale web applications we are looking for you.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a fast growing business and shape the technology and product. You should bring technical and software expertise the ability to deliver solid code that has a broad business impact and a software that achieves its operational goals.






Key job responsibilities
Deliver technical design and high quality code for new features or improvements to existing features
Collaborate with Stakeholders such as product managers UX designers and other engineers to deliver high quality software solutions for our customers
Mentor and lead more junior engineers
Review peers technical design and code
Drive innovative solutions to improve operational health of our team and product

A day in the life
Working as part of the AWS backup team you will be spending most of your time building high quality code writing technical design documents mentoring more junior engineers reviewing your peers code and technical designs and ensuring the operational health of our systems.
This position involves oncall responsibilities typically for one week every 5 to 8 weeks. When you are on call you will be dedicated to responding to customer issues and addressing operational problems such as system failures availability and latency drops. We dont like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged we work together to resolve the root cause so that we dont get paged for the same issue twice.
Throughout all of this you will be surrounded with teammates who will help and support you and occasionally humble you with their foosball playing skills.

About the team
Our team is intentional about attracting developing and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Yes we do get to build a really cool service but we also think a big reason for that is the inclusive and welcoming culture we try to cultivate every day.

We have a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior engineers truly enjoy mentoring more junior engineers and engineers from nontraditional backgrounds through oneonone mentoring as well as thorough but kind code reviews.

Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
We value worklife harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship and Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledgesharing mentorship and other careeradvancing resources here to help you develop into a betterrounded professional.



3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Ability to work through ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly and driving innovative technical solutions

Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions

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The base salary for this position ranges from $114800/year up to $191800/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.