Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS Insights & Optimizations

The AWS Analytics and Machine Learning team within AWS Billing and Cost Management is seeking an experienced software engineer lead to join a team working to help AWS customers plan and monitor their cloud costs. Our product has high visibility and is an essential resource for AWS customers of all sizes.

Providing a scalable platform to support AWS expanding business is a complex architectural challenge and accurate cost and usage information is a critical piece. Enterprise-level customers make large dollar-value decisions based on the timeliness accuracy and detail of the data provided by our products.

You will be the technical lead taking on architectural challenges in processing billions of usage records and providing intelligent products to help customers understand control and estimate their costs. You will be empowered to think big invent on behalf of our customers make judgment calls and find elegant solutions to hard problems.



Key job responsibilities
- Tackle complex problems such as processing large volumes of data at low latency and cost.
- Deliver projects that delight our customers
- Lead by example your team establishing high standards coding and operational practices.
- Coach and support a team of software developers with a wide mix of backgrounds and strengths
- Participate in interviews for other teams in the organization.
- Work with extraordinary teams delivering demanding projects.
- Collaborate with other teams and organizations to simplify solutions and deliver results to our customers.

A day in the life
On our team you will spend your time tackling the hardest problems in the space. You will work with your manager and other technical leaders to define and kick-off long-term strategies setting up your team for success. You collaborate with Data Scientists to improve customer experience and enabling new features through analytics and machine learning.

About the team
We are a collaborative highly-motivated group within AWS Insights & Organizations. We are entrepreneurial with a high degree of ownership and a commitment to experiment and innovate. We encourage diversity of opinion and welcome dissent with respect and thoughtful debate as we search for the best solutions - and wed love to hear yours. This is an opportunity to think about big problems that impact millions of our AWS customers and solve them with our collective ingenuity all while engaging various teams across our broader org. You will join a team at the center of AWS cost management the services that every customer interacts with when they set budgets receive anomaly alerts or forecast their AWS spend.

- 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

- 8 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
- 4 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

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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 NY New York - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually