Software Development Engineer, AWS Vetting

Software Development Engineer, AWS VettingJob 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. Our team leads a large-scale service that sets the bar for Amazon and the industry in platform level services, effectively enabling the hardware at scale by designing and developing the software that manages the verification and testing of every server in AWS.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, and be 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 enables 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. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help. You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.Key job responsibilitiesSolve complex problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices.Focus on a major portion of existing or new team software, including large or significant component, set of features, mid-size application or service.Work with your team to invent, design and build software that is stable and performant. You write code that an SDE unfamiliar with the system can understand.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.As needed, support training new teammates 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 lifeAttend 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 peers' 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. Our work consistently requires working with our internal customers directly such as EC2 and Data Center Operatives.Attend and influence roadmap planning.About the teamAmazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.Amazon Web Services (AWS) values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empowers us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.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 languagePREFERRED 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 equivalentAmazon 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.
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