Do you like startups Are you interested in the intersection of cloud computing and disrupting innovation Are you interested in the development and practical application of deep learning and generative AI Yes We have a role you might find interesting.
Startups are the large enterprises of the future. These young companies are founded by ambitious people who have a desire to build something meaningful and challenge the status quo. They seek to address underserved customers or to challenge incumbents. They usually operate in an environment of scarcity: whether thats capital engineering resource or experience. This is where you come in.
We are looking for technical builders who love the idea of working with early stage startups to help them as they grow. In this role youll work directly with a variety of interesting customers and help them make the best (and sometimes the most pragmatic) technical decisions along the way. Youll have a chance to build enduring relationships with these companies and establish yourself as a trusted advisor.
As a member of the AWS Startups team you will work directly with customers to help them successfully leverage AWS technology at scale.
As well as spending time working directly with customers youll also get plenty of time to learn new technologies and keep your skills fresh. We have 200 services across a range of different categories and its important that we can help startups take advantages of the right ones. Youll also play an important role as an advocate with our product teams to make sure we are building the right products and features for the startups you work with. And for the customers you dont get to work with on a 1:1 basis youll share knowledge more broadly by working on technical content and presenting at events.
Key job responsibilities
- Help a diverse range of early stage startups to adopt the right architecture at each part of their lifecycle
- Support startups in architecting scalable reliable and secure solutions
- Support adoption of a broad range of AWS services to deliver business value and accelerate growth
- Support the evolution and roadmap of the AWS platform and services connecting our engineering teams with our customers for feedback
- Establish and build technical relationships within the startup ecosystem including accelerators incubators and VCs
- Develop startup specific technical content such as blog posts sample code and solutions to assist customers solve technical problems and reduce time-to-market
A day in the life
Startups are the large enterprises of the future. These young companies are founded by ambitious people who have a desire to build something meaningful and to challenge the status quo. To address underserved customers or to challenge incumbents. They usually operate in an environment of scarcity: whether thats capital engineering resource or experience.
The AWS Startup Solutions Architecture team is dedicated to working with startup companies as they build their businesses. Were here to help them deploy the best most scalable most secure cost effective and easy to operate architectures.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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- 8 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
- 3 years of design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 10 years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- 5 years of infrastructure architecture database architecture and networking experience
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
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