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
Would you enjoy diving deep into operating and improving some of the largest software systems humanity has ever built Do the challenges that come of driving technical business and cultural change to improve the reliability performance and efficiency excite you
The AWS Managed Operations (MO) organization was founded in April 2023 with the objective to reduce operational load and toil through long-term engineering projects. Managed Operations (MO) is building the best-in-class engineering and operations team that will own the day-to-day operations for AWS Regions; improving the availability reliability latency performance and efficiency to operate AWS regions.
Amazon is looking for highly motivated Systems Development Engineers who can balance the day-to-day operations of AWS software systems with long-term software engineering to reduce operational toil. We need engineers who enjoy constantly learning and diving deep into the wide range of systems and technologies that make up one of the worlds largest cloud providers.
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Key job responsibilities
Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams projects and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. Youll bring a passion for innovation data search analytics and distributed systems.
Youll also:
- Solve challenging technical problems often ones not solved before at every layer of the stack.
A day in the life
Youll roughly spend 50% of your time operating production systems and 50% making long-term improvements to the reliability availability and performance of those software systems. An example week could look like: Monday morning you root caused why some deployments recently failed and in the afternoon you made fixes for those bugs. Tuesday you realized theres actually a common thread to those bug fixes yesterday and designed a solution to that class of problem seeking feedback from your team. On Wednesday you investigated a Service Level Objective (SLO) that recently became less than useful. You dove deep talked with the partner team and found out the thresholds no-longer makes sense so you updated their infrastructure as code (IaC) to fix it. Then on Thursday and Friday you were developing software with your team on a system you designed which safely replaces the fleets in your teams care with a more optimal hardware type increasing the performance whilst decreasing its carbon emissions.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS 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.
About AWS
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.
Utility Computing (UC)
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.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences and conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life 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.
- 3 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3 years of administrative experience in networking storage systems operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Golang Java C C# Rust
- 5 years of administrative experience in networking storage systems operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
- Experience in networking storage systems operating systems and hands-on systems engineering
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- 2 years of non-internship professional software development experience
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