Software Development Engineer, Event Outfitters Engineering

Passionate about building a service that changes the way customers learn and get hands on with AWS services Come join our developer team building an AWS services in a scalable and secure way for handson workshops including Immersion Days and Game Days. This service will help deliver customer workshops at private and public events globally at AWS as well as for customers and partners to use directly.

In this role you will build and develop solutions for managing one of the largest fleets of AWS Accounts in existence in scalable and secure way supporting the broader AWS Field in enabling both internal and external customers. This role will give you the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to solve problems at scale and how to effectively own a critical service that is a dependency for other teams.

Our team owns services that thousands of AWS Solutions Architects (SAs) use to work efficiently and securely with hundreds of thousands of customers. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to develop and maintain account management operations. We are looking for software engineers who are both passionate and skilled at working on distributed cloudscale systems. As part of this team you will be responsible for helping to design and build one or more systems that together powers our service. You will have the opportunity to work on the development of the endtoend experience of this service. Roles include working on backend API development security and identity serverless distributed systems NoSQL data storage complex event orchestration and automation realtime data processing and infrastructure automation. In addition we face all the usual scale availability latency and coordination challenges of running a cloudscale service.

Our ideal candidate will demonstrate a passion for working on behalf of customers have a track record of ontime delivery of large scale projects and have the ability to operate independently and autonomously.


Key job responsibilities
You will help our team solve problems such as:

Design and implement faulttolerant systems and services that run at large scale and ensure high availability guarantees using AWS services including but not limited to: Lambda Step Functions DynamoDB API Gateway CloudFront SQS SNS AppSync KMS etc..
Own defining disambiguating designing and implementing multitier distributed software systems and applications. Dive into complex architectures research and identify new technology that can help optimize performance.
Design and implement systems that will help our service achieve 5x the current scale within a year. Design and implement software that will help minimize outages and improve the availability of our service
Estimate effort plan implementation and launch systems that meet requirements for functionality performance scalability reliability and adherence to development goals and principles.
Experiment innovate and deliver fast agile and reliable with high quality and low technical debt.
You should be passionate about building improving and championing the product and a strong sense of ownership is a must.

About the team
Our team owns builds tools/services that allow the AWS field to securely and efficiently deliver technical content and hands on events to customers. We work with AWS Event Marketing to support all large events such as re:Invent re:Inforce and Summits as well as other internal teams to help support other technical content creation aspects. Our team is mostly centered in Texas however we have folks in other locations and from a number of backgrounds / experience. Were always looking for more folks to help us improve and continue delivering an awesome experience for both internal and external customers!

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3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
3 years of contributing to new and current systems architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) experience
Bachelors degree or equivalent
Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
3 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience in machine learning data mining information retrieval statistics or natural language processing

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