Software Development Engineer, AWS Vetting

Software Development Engineer, AWS Vetting

Job ID: 2768803 | Amazon Data Services, Inc.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to build massively scalable systems that are used by the world's largest cloud infrastructures?
Would you enjoy broad yet equally deep scope that impacts all AWS systems globally?
AWS Vetting continues to pioneer and our team is architecting, building, and operating scalable services that are at the core of AWS infrastructure.

What do we do?
We build platforms and tools that ensure the health of AWS hardware by testing every new and rebuilt system across all AWS data centers. Our platform enables service owners such as EC2, EBS, S3, and others to deliver healthy servers for their service to production.

Why it’s high-impact?
We set the bar high to ensure that AWS customers get the capacity they need to run their applications on a healthy hardware server within an SLA.

What’s the challenge?
There are many ambiguous and difficult challenges in our fast-moving space. Our platform is mission-critical and requires deep system and software expertise. You need to have the ability to work within a fast-moving and startup-like environment in a large company. You will identify solutions, trying ideas, given space to fail and iterate to produce products that your customers love.

What you will do?
You will be a part of a team to build the next generation of platform-level software and systems that enable us to deliver healthy hardware to AWS customers. You design and deliver technology solutions which solve difficult business problems.

Who would succeed in this role?
Deeply technical engineers who stay close to the customer as well as the systems architecture and design. They think about customer experience and the outcome. A person who works autonomously and dives deep into a problem to understand how things work, when to make subtle changes, and when to disrupt the status quo to achieve the right results.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re 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.

Key job responsibilities
- Solve complex problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices.
- Focus on a major portion of existing or new team software, including large or significant components, set of features, mid-size application or service.
- Work with your team to invent, design and build software that is stable and performant.
- Work on project ideas with customers, stakeholders, peers and help balance customer requirements with team requirements.
- Help your team evolve by actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, team planning, and ticket/metric/COE reviews.
- Improve and focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions.
- Work to resolve the root cause of complex problems, leaving software better and easier to maintain than when you found it.
- Support training new team-mates on how your team’s software is constructed, how it operates, how secure it is, and how it fits into the bigger picture.

A day in the life
- Attend and collaborate with your teammates in bi-weekly sprint agile ceremonies such as stand-ups, backlog scoping, sprint planning, retros, demos, and operational excellence meetings.
- Provide CR and DR feedback to stay up to date with the progress of your peer's projects.
- Provide clear design reviews and detailed planning to complete them with consistent updates.
- Complete sprint tasks assigned from your project planning or any other team high priority user stories.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

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