Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS DMS

Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS DMS

Job ID: 2756393 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Developer to join our team and lead the development of our mission-critical testing platform for AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining a scalable and robust testing infrastructure to support the software development lifecycle of all AWS DMS products.

AWS DMS is a critical service used by customers worldwide to migrate their most important data from on-premises data centers to Amazon cloud services. Our customers depend on the reliability and security of our services to handle their business-critical data. Your work on the testing platform will be instrumental in ensuring the quality and resilience of the AWS DMS offering.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams to identify and address testing needs, and continuously improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our testing processes. Your technical leadership and mentorship will be invaluable in driving the development of our scalable testing platform.

Key job responsibilities
Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. You’ll bring a passion for innovation, data, search, analytics, and distributed systems. You’ll also:

1. Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
2. Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
3. Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.
4. Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.

A day in the life
As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture, you’ll create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects. You’ll also:

1. Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
2. Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
3. Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
4. Work in a startup-like development environment, where you’re always working on the most important stuff.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 7+ 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
- 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
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to quickly identify and resolve issues
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Experience with cloud-based testing platforms and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of security testing and performance testing methodologies
- Experience in leading and mentoring a team of software developers and QA engineers
- Familiarity with agile software development methodologies

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