Software Development Engineer

Would you like to help implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve the most complex technical problems Are you excited by the prospect of building and running the worlds largest cloud computing infrastructure to provide a better world for future generations

Amazon Web Services (AWS) builds and operates some of the largest internet infrastructure on the planet; providing companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS customers provision compute power storage database and other cloud resources as their business demands them. To meet the growing demand for AWS Services around the globe we need exceptionally motivated people who are driven by learning and innovation.

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.

If you join us youll be part of a world-class team in a dynamic environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. As a member of the team providing EC2 services you will be delivering foundational capability that benefits all customers!

This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale and to gain world class experience in cloud computing. Youll be surrounded by people who are passionate about cloud computing believe that first class service is critical to customer success and are committed to improvement.

Top reasons to join our team:
Be a catalyst to deliver a truly disruptive products that are growing rapidly
Solve unique and first-order problems at massive-scale across many AWS Services
Learn how to build and operate distributed systems at massive scale
Build and influence the tools and utilities that are part of the AWS fleet running our internal servic

Key job responsibilities
Amazon has a collaborative purposeful and enthusiastic environment where we Work Hard Have Fun Make History. On a typical day engineers might deep dive to root cause a customer issue investigate why a metric is trending the wrong way consult with the top engineers at Amazon or discuss radical new approaches to automate operational issues.

A software engineer at Amazon will have technical ownership of designs and services and will influence good coding practices among peers. Responsibilities will include designing coding reviewing testing fixing researching deploying and maintaining services and code in Amazon cloud production environments. Successful candidates will be experienced software engineers who can prioritize well are good team players develop at a high standard can deal with new and ambiguous problem domains and have a consistent track record of delivery.

A day in the life
At Amazon our software engineers take ownership of solution design turn it into code and deliver it on schedule using appropriate technologies and current software engineering best practices. They are expected to collaborate with their team and across teams to take responsibility for improvements and building of new tooling features services and applications.

Amazon software engineers have the responsibility of building maintaining and running the software they own including the dependencies of their teams software hardware platform operating system and build. They may also be part of an on-call rotation within their team and in the event of problems are able to troubleshoot research the root cause and thoroughly resolve defects.

About the team
About AWS

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.

Why 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.

Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas fresh perspectives and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

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.

- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- 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
- Bachelors degree or equivalent
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and able to articulate technical challenges and solutions to a broad range of audiences; technical and business

- Masters degree or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an complex projects to resolution

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Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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