Passionate about building a service that changes the way customers learn and get hands on with AWS services? Come join our developer team building an AWS services in a scalable and secure way for hands-on workshops including Immersion Days and Game Days. This service will help deliver customer workshops at private and public events globally at AWS, as well as for customers and partners to use directly.
In this role, you will build and develop solutions for managing one of the largest fleets of AWS Accounts in existence in scalable and secure way, supporting the broader AWS Field in enabling both internal and external customers. This role will give you the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to solve problems at scale and how to effectively own a critical service that is a dependency for other teams.
Our team owns services that thousands of AWS Solutions Architects (SAs) use to work efficiently and securely with hundreds of thousands of customers. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to develop and maintain account management operations. We are looking for software engineers who are both passionate and skilled at working on distributed cloud-scale systems. As part of this team, you will be responsible for helping to design and build one or more systems that together powers our service. You will have the opportunity to work on the development of the end-to-end experience of this service. Roles include working on back-end API development, security and identity, serverless distributed systems, NoSQL data storage, complex event orchestration and automation, real-time data processing, and infrastructure automation. In addition, we face all the usual scale, availability, latency, and co-ordination challenges of running a cloud-scale service.
Our ideal candidate will demonstrate a passion for working on behalf of customers, have a track record of on-time delivery of large scale projects, and have the ability to operate independently and autonomously.
Key job responsibilities You will help our team solve problems such as:
- Design and implement fault-tolerant systems and services that run at large scale and ensure high availability guarantees using AWS services including, but not limited to: Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudFront, SQS, SNS, AppSync, KMS etc..
- Own defining, disambiguating, designing, and implementing multi-tier distributed software systems and applications. Dive into complex architectures, research and identify new technology that can help optimize performance.
- Design and implement systems that will help our service achieve 5x the current scale within a year. Design and implement software that will help minimize outages and improve the availability of our service
- Estimate effort, plan implementation, and launch systems that meet requirements for functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, and adherence to development goals and principles.
- Experiment, innovate and deliver fast, agile, and reliable with high quality and low technical debt.
- You should be passionate about building, improving and championing the product and a strong sense of ownership is a must.
- Leverage GenAI to automate operational tasks for the team, maintain runbooks, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides based on resolved incidents, code changes, and operational patterns
About the team Our team owns builds tools/services that allow the AWS field to securely, and efficiently deliver technical content and hands on events to customers. We work with AWS Event Marketing to support all large events such as re:Invent, re:Inforce, and Summits, as well as other internal teams to help support other technical content creation aspects. Our team is mostly centered in Texas, however we have folks in other locations and from a number of backgrounds / experience. We're always looking for more folks to help us improve and continue delivering an awesome experience for both internal and external customers!
AWS Global Services AWS Global Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design, build, operate, and secure their cloud environments. Customers innovate with AWS Professional Services, upskill with AWS Training and Certification, optimize with AWS Support and Managed Services, and meet objectives with AWS Security Assurance Services. Our expertise and emerging technologies include AWS Partners, AWS Sovereign Cloud, AWS International Product, and the Generative AI Innovation Center. You’ll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.
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Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- 3+ years of contributing to new and current systems architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- 3+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, TX, Austin - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually