Software Development Engineer, EC2 Load Balancing - Metering, Analytics and Reporting Services

Software Development Engineer, EC2 Load Balancing - Metering, Analytics and Reporting Services

Job ID: 2804788 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Do you want to help lead the cloud revolution and build software that thrives at immense scale?

AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) enables customers to build large scale highly available services. ELB automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. ELB provides the entry point for building hyper scale, fault tolerant applications. While ELB has seen tremendous growth since launch we are still in the early stages of realizing our full potential.

This role is for the ELB Metering, Analytics and Reporting Services (MARS) team. The team’s mission is to architect and build a unified metrics system for ELB products to support various data-driven events and decisions. We collect, aggregate and enrich ELB usage data to support metering, audits to ensure accuracy, billing, cost, efficiency and business intelligence analysis.

We are building and launching new services and features on a regular basis. Application load balancer (ALB), Network load balancer (NLB), Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) and PrivateLink are a few examples.

We ship software frequently, get fast feedback from real customers around the globe and see the results of our work come to fruition. The Amazon ELB service is deployed globally to over 30 regions today and is growing at an extremely rapid rate. There are real-world problems to solve that you won't find ready-made answers for. For example, how do you ensure customers can scale their application quickly to handle traffic spikes and then back down in a matter of minutes? How do you design a load balancing metrics solution that allows customers to quickly and easily achieve the highest levels of fault tolerance using Amazon EC2, CloudWatch, S3, and Kinesis?

We are now designing and building the next generation of ELB features capable of handling terabytes of data per day, empowering customers to make real-time decisions, and continually improve the metering experience. This is a unique opportunity to help build large-scale systems from the ground up.

About the team
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Why AWS?
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Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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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, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with load balancing technologies like NGINX, and HTTProxy.
- Experience building scalable, fault tolerant infrastructure software or distributed systems.
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations.
- Distributed systems, networking design and implementation experience.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well in a team.
- Experience mentoring junior software development engineers and driving engineering excellence.

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