Sr Software Development Engineer AWS Demand Planning

The AWS Capacity Forecasting team engages with all AWS service teams to build the worlds largest Cloud infrastructure. Come make history!

Our main objective is to perform demand planning to create forecast which helps power all the AWS services physical infrastructure needs. The team owns demand forecasts software and capacity optimization systems hardware which produces hardware ordering recommendation. As part of EC2 Core Platform we aim to strike a nimble balance between capacity availability and utilization.

We provide demand forecasts for all AWS services and automate the procurement of hardware to support our rapidly growing business. We apply advanced forecasting data mining and machine learning techniques to predict customer demand growth. We also build capacity models for foundational AWS services and identify their performance bottlenecks (disk/CPU/IO etc. to serve everincreasing customer demand. Combining the demand forecast and the capacity model we generate hardware purchases that optimize across customer experience and hardware utilization. Our software drives the many billions of dollars in CapEx that AWS spends every year and our projects help improve AWS utilization to reduce CapEx by 100s of millions of dollars every year.

On technology front we use Scala Java Python JavaScript Lambda DynamoDB as well as other public AWS services and Amazoninternal tools. We are looking for someone who is passionate about data and problem solving. We dont expect you to be an expert in or necessarily familiar with all of these technologies but we expect you to be excited to learn.

Key job responsibilities
You will work directly with business owners research scientists other software development teams and owners of major AWS services. This role requires an individual with excellent analytical abilities deep knowledge of software engineering principles as well as a passion for problemsolving. Ideally you are comfortable with ambiguity and accessing and working with data from multiple sources.

This position involves oncall responsibilities but since we dont own any direct customer facing services the operational load is manageable.

About the team
Our team puts a high value on worklife balance. While we do maintain core collaboration hours in the office we also offer the flexibility to accommodate individual working styles. Weve built a team culture that encourages knowledge sharing and that celebrates openness friendliness collaboration and the drive to get things done.

We strongly believe in supporting new (and existing) members and our teams broad mix of experience levels and tenures allow for a great deal of mentoring and learning opportunities. We care about your career growth; we do our best to assign projects to develop our team members into wellrounded professionals who are prepared take on tasks of increasing complexity as their career progresses.

5 years of noninternship professional software development experience
5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team

5 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

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/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.