Sr Software Development Engineer, EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML

Come and build with the EC2 Capacity product engineering. Our larger org, EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute) is a part of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the global leader in public cloud infrastructure.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is the centerpiece the Amazon Web Services (AWS) family of cloud computing services. Customers depend on EC2 to provide secure and reliable computing power for business, research, education, or anything else they need to accomplish their goals. Our team is building new and exciting services that help our customers reduce their costs and improve their overall experiences using EC2. We are looking for software engineers who care about the customer and are excited at the thought of providing simple and well-designed solutions to meet our customers' needs.

Our team is currently working backwards from the customer by developing a new product that is being envisioned as if it were ready to ship. This product will serve both day-to-day users and company executive leadership in making decisions that will drive their EC2 usage. We are building a high-throughput, strongly available, and scalable APIs that will serve as a single focal point for decision-makers to ingest data. These decisions will continue to drive the scalable and efficient delivery of EC2 compute capacity to customers.

Key job responsibilities

While our service will span multiple teams, day-to-day responsibilities will include significant hands-on software development, designing, coding, building software services to support the scale out of the team's services, and working with other engineers and AWS service teams. You will create systems that feed public facing APIs that customers will interact with. You will have a major influence in coaching others across the organization, in collaboration with software development teams, as well as leading local development to improve operational excellence.

- Design and implement long-term solutions for EC2 Capacity Products Engineering

- Focus on impactful changes that will improve customer experience

- Development and operate low-latency, high-availability services

- Mentoring and coaching performance management for a best-in-class engineering team

- Ownership and continuous improvement for the team's software stack

- Drive innovation on behalf of our customers

- Execute against project plans and delivery commitments

A day in the life

A successful candidate will spend their days between their code editor of choice, document editor for design communications, regular status meetings and taking regular operations rotations. During operation rotation, candidates in this role will lead operations reviews, track down operational problems and provide appropriate solutions.

About the team

The team is built on mutual respect with a culture of supportive communications. Successful candidates will be team oriented and open minded with a balance of Bias for Action/Deliver Results and Dive Deep. Insisting on the highest standards in conduct and code a base part of who we are.

About the team

EC2 Capacity Reservations

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ 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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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