Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Application Recovery Controller

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design planning delivery and operation of all AWS global other words were the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers storage networking power and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain and were looking for talented people who want to help.

Youll join a diverse team of software hardware and network engineers supply chain specialists security experts operations managers and other vital roles. Youll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And youll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

The Incident Mitigation team is looking for experienced software engineers who are excited about building large scale systems spanning tens of thousands of servers across multiple data-centers worldwide. These are core systems development positions where you will own the design and development of significant software components critical to our industry leading database services architect-ed for the cloud.

In this hands on position you will be asked to do everything from building rock-solid components to mentoring other engineers. You need to not only be a top software developer with a good track record of delivering but also excel in communication leadership and customer focus. This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast growing business and help shape the technology product and the business. A successful candidate will bring deep technical and software expertise and ability to work within a fast moving startup environment in a large company to deliver high quality code that has a broad business impact.

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. Design implement test deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance durability cost and security. Build high-quality highly available always-on products. Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.


About the team
The Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) team builds and operates a global service that helps customers recover applications during outages. We provide continuous readiness checks and rapid failover capabilities that improve application resilience across AWS Regions and Availability Zones. Our team solves complex distributed systems challenges to ensure customers can maintain business continuity during disruptions. Were passionate about building highly available infrastructure that protects mission-critical workloads. We operate at massive scale designing solutions that work reliably even when everything else fails.

- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 5 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 OR Portland - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually