Software Development Engineer , EC2 Placement

Build the systems that optimize how EC2 matches requests for Instances with the underlying compute capacity. EC2 Placement is seeking talented engineers to build the online and offline optimization systems for compute workload scheduling and the customer capabilities to better manage those workloads. Amazon EC2 provides ondemand scalable compute capacity and powers some of the largest services in the world. You will collaborate with a toptier community of engineers to build systems to improve how customers are able to access EC2 compute resources.

The successful candidate will have strong software engineering experience with a passion for thinking about building and testing distributed systems. You have an interest in how Machine Learning and other optimization techniques can be applied to largescale problems. You have demonstrated experience working with a team to design build and operate largescale systems. With strong engineering fundamentals an analytical and datadriven approach to your work and strong communication skills you have the ability to collaborate well to deliver results. We move fast and work together on small teams to solve big problems.

If this opportunity sounds interesting we would love to talk to you more about our work and the vibrant culture at AWS in Cape Town.

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.



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Experience (noninternship) in professional software development
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including objectoriented design

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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