Software Development Engineer, AWS Incident Prevention

Software Development Engineer, AWS Incident Prevention

The Incident Prevention 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 architected 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 the 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:

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

Minimum Requirements:

• 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
• 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
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent