Software Development Engineer AWS Vetting

Come change the way the world sees the Cloud!

What do we do
We build platforms and tools that ensure the health of AWS hardware by testing every new and rebuilt system across all AWS data centers. Our platform enables service owners such as EC2 EBS S3 and other to deliver healthy servers for their service to the production. Our team leads a largescale service that sets the bar for Amazon and the industry in platform level services effectively enabling the hardware at scale by designing and developing the software that manages the verification and testing of every server in AWS.

Why its highimpact
We set the bar high to ensure that AWS customers get the capacity they need to run their applications on a healthy hardware server within an SLA

Whats the challenge
There are many ambiguous and difficult challenges in our fastmoving space. Our platform is mission critical and requires deep system and software expertise. You need to have the ability to work within a fast moving and startuplike environment in a large company. You will identify solutions trying ideas given space to fail and iterate to produce products that your customers love.

What you will do
You will be a part of a team to build the next generation of platform level software and systems that enables us to deliver healthy hardware to AWS customers. You design and deliver technology solutions which solve difficult business problems.

Who would succeed in this role
Deeply technical engineers who stay close to the customer as well as the systems architecture and design. They think about customer experience and the outcome. A person who works autonomously and dives deep in to a problem to deeply understand how things work when to make subtle change and when to disrupt the status quo to achieve the right results.

Why its highimpact:
Our systems ensure that AWS data centers run correctly and efficiently and that our leadership has visibility into every step of every process.

Who would succeed in this role:
Deeply technical engineers who stay close to the customer as well as the architecture and design. A person who works autonomously and dives deep in to a problem to deeply understand how things work when to make subtle change and when to disrupt the status quo to achieve the right results.

WorkLife Balance
Our team puts a high value on worklife balance. Most days our teams are colocated in the Seattle office locations but were also flexible when people occasionally need to work from home. Some teams meet twice per week in the office and others generally keep core inoffice hours.

OnCall Responsibility
The positions involve some oncall responsibilities typically each team follows a standard process to limit the oncall requirement to a minimal. On average each engineer should expect to be oncall once every 6 weeks. 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.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our teams are dedicated to supporting new team members. Our teams 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 and thorough but kind code reviews.
We care about your career growth. We try to assign projects and tasks based on what will help each team member develop into a betterrounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design planning delivery and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words were the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers storage networking power and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain and were looking for talented people who want to help.

Youll join a diverse team of software hardware and network engineers supply chain specialists security experts operations managers and other vital roles. Youll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And youll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

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.

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

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.

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.

Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employeeled affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.



Key job responsibilities
In this role your responsibilities are and not limited to:
Solve complex problems applying appropriate technologies and best practices.
Focus on a major portion of existing or new team software including large or significant component set of features midsize application or service.
Work with your team to invent design and build software that is stable and performant. You write code that an SDE unfamiliar with the system can understand.
Work on project ideas with customers stakeholders peers and helping balance customer requirements with team requirements.
You help your team evolve by actively participating in the code review process design discussions team planning and ticket/metric/COE reviews.
Improve and focus on operational excellence constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions.
Work to resolve the root cause of complex problems leaving software better and easier to maintain than when you found it.
As needed support training new teammates on how your teams software is constructed how it operates how secure it is and how it fits into the bigger picture.


A day in the life
Whats the challenge: Engineers work in fastmoving space and have a large number of ambiguous challenges. Our projects require deep technical and software expertise and the ability to work within a fast moving startup environment in a large company. You will be responsible for identifying solutions trying ideas given space to fail and iterate to produce products that your customers love. Software Engineers stay close to the customer as well as the architecture and design. Engineers dive deep to understand how things work when to make subtle change and when to disrupt the status quo to achieve the right results

About the team
Vetting Monitoring and Provisioning is a software organization within AWS that develops services for preparing (provisioning) validating (vetting) and monitoring the health and security of AWS servers worldwide. Our customers are data center operation teams hardware engineering and service owners such as EC2 EBS and S3. Our customers deploy servers power shelves storage devices and more across AWSs global data center footprint (including colocated sites). We enable our customers to manage secure test monitor and update these devices by building authoritative control systems. We measure success based on our ability to deliver capacity quickly to proactively detect and prevent defects that impact customers and our customers ability to adopt and safely use our solutions. The scale of problems we solve is unique. We have an open inclusive and highly collaborative and supportive team culture and spend considerable time onboarding and training our new team members.

Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
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
Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Experience in computer architecture
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

4 years of building production software experience
4 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle including coding standards software architectures code reviews source control management continuous deployments testing and operational excellence
Experience in Linux Operating Systems and their sub systems
Experience in distributed software architecture at scale

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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.