Senior Software Development Engineer, Builder Tools, Builder Tools

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.

Do you want to build platforms and services that fundamentally improve test automation for your fellow software developers The AWS Test Automation Platform team is looking for passionate software developers to transform the way our customers improve write and execute test automation software. We develop frameworks and services that enable teams to improve the quality of their products through testing and feedback at every stage of the software lifecycle. We make best practices the path of least resistance our tools are automated intelligent ubiquitous and wherever possible we automatically perform actions on behalf of our customers/software engineers.

Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:
Lead projects requiring both business and technical domain knowledge and drive solutions to complex or ambiguous problems with limited guidance.
Set the team bar for writing clean maintainable code and perform peer codereviews.
Drive teams overall technical architecture engineering practices and engineering methodologies.
Work with other team members to investigate design approaches prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against fastpaced schedules.

A day in the life
Our ideal candidate is passionate about quality demonstrates strong communication and collaboration skills and is able to deal with ambiguous situations.

About the team
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Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
7 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Experience with full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations
Proficiency with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Python Java Typescript Scala Golang C or C#

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 building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

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IDE statement:
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