Do you love decomposing problems to develop products that impact millions of people around the world Would you enjoy identifying defining and building software solutions that revolutionize how businesses operate
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
The EC2 Networking team at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Software Development Engineer II to build deliver and maintain complex products that delight our customers and raise our performance bar. Youll design faulttolerant systems that run at massive scale as we continue to innovate bestinclass services and applications in the AWS Cloud.
We are a core team in AWS EC2 organization to enable critical services that underpin the network. As a SDE for VPC you will be responsible for influencing and shaping the direction of our services as well as working on a new initiative. You will define plan and execute on deliverables that drive game changing improvements for internal and external customers alike. VPC operates at large scale and enable customers to build high availability systems worldwide so a passion and discipline around operational excellence is key.
With the extensive network and access to Principal Sr. Principal and Distinguished Engineers across EC2 AWS and Amazon there are many stretch opportunities to grow your skills and knowledge.
Your responsibilities will include:
Being an engineer on a small team mentoring junior engineers ensuring the right development practices are followed.
Be very handson; work with the engineering team to manage the daytoday development activities by leading architecture decisions participating in designs design review code review and implementation.
Maintain current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology always on a look out for new technologies and work with management and development team in bringing new technologies.
Communicating with users other technical teams and senior management to collect requirements describe software product features technical designs and product strategy
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A day in the life
About the Team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledgesharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy oneonone mentoring and thorough but kind code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Diverse Experiences
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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
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience (noninternship) in professional software development
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location 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. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.