Software Development Engineer II, EC2 Edge Frontier, Ordering & Billing

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the pioneer and recognized leader in cloud computing. We provide a platform for IT infrastructure in-the-cloud that is used by hundreds of thousands of developers and businesses around the world. Our customers range from start-ups to leading web companies to Global 2000 companies across industries. AWSs customers are looking for ways to improve their business models and solve complex customer challenges leveraging AWSs robust suite of solutions. With AWS Outposts customers can run fully managed solutions delivering AWS infrastructure and services to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience. We are hiring engineers who thrive in a fast-paced collaborative and open environment who arent afraid to dive-deep to solve seemingly impossible challenges who want to build rock solid 24x7 never-fail highly-secure software at world-class scale and who obsess over customers. A successful candidate will be customer focused passionate about using systems to solve complex problems and able to balance delivering incremental improvements with long-term vision. A deep technical understanding and a desire to learn about complex systems is a must as you will bridge processes across many nuanced and complex systems. Solid systems development fundamentals and systems design skills will provide the foundation for your initial onboarding as you are coached and mentored by engineering and technical business experts to keep you on your desired career trajectory. Bring your curiosity and come work with a team of diverse professionals across multiple organizations and be part of building AWSs future at the Edge.

Position Overview

SDEs in the EC2 Edge organization are autonomous contributors to their teams software for building and maintaining scalable services tools and processes that manage Edge devices throughout their lifecycle from ordering to when an assets useful life is over.
You will deliver working features spanning the full software lifecycle including working backwards from customers software design implementation testing deployment operations and documentation. Your code will be of high-quality and youll make regular commits to contribute to the teams codebase. Youll also coach others on producing high quality code and following engineering best practices. Youll ensure that when software fails the root cause is identified and eliminated with a permanent fix.

Work/Life Balance

Our team takes work-life balance seriously. We believe its not about counting hoursits about cultivating a rhythm that brings energy to everything you do. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives. This position involves on-call responsibilities typically for one week every two months. We dont like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged we work together to resolve the root cause so that we dont get paged for the same issue twice.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough but kind code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Key job responsibilities

- Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive design and bring innovative products and services to market
- Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry at incredible scale and speed
- Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality maintainable code with comprehensive documentation
- Mentor and coach team members on software engineering best practices
- Drive root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes for production issues

A day in the life

- Writing code in a variety of languages and technologies from AWS Lambda to scripting languages on bare metal where necessary.
- Writing detailed specifications and work break down documents for upcoming work
- Participation in standups retrospectives code reviews design reviews operational retrospectives.

About the team

Our team is focused on the ordering billing and installation lifecycle of the Outposts family of products. We have an enthusiastic and supportive team that enjoys working on the product we build. This team gets a very unique view of our customers and product as we follow an Outpost from order through setup to decommission. Its a great team to join to expand your career in modern web services or to grow in the complexity of an industry leading managed service that brings AWS on-premise. Our team is Seattle based.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 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

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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually