Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Firecracker
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Posted today
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Posted today
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Interest, knowledge, and experience in the areas low-level software engineering and/or systems programming
- Passionate about working in the open source community
Desirable
- Experience in the areas of low-level software engineering and/or systems programming, for example with Linux, C, C++, or Rust
What the job involves
- Join us at AWS Lambda in building global scale compute platforms
- We focus on serverless & container virtualization technologies, on trusted compute, and on server fleet tooling
- We invent, build, and own building blocks that are the foundation of the cloud
- This is an exciting opportunity for you to create new products and services of an innovative team that feels like a start-up!
- We are looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, curious, empathic, motivated, reliable, with a good sense of ownership, and a drive to invent
- In this role, you will work on Firecracker [1], an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services that provide serverless operational models
- Firecracker is deployed globally as part of AWS Lambda [2], Aurora D-SQL, and other AWS Services
- Firecracker is also integrated by 10+ teams beyond AWS as part of their platforms [3]
- Firecracker has an ambitious multi-year roadmap of tackling impactful and interesting opportunities in the quickly expanding ephemeral compute space - come help us make history!
- Your main goal will be to create long-term customer value
- You will: work to understand our customers' needs and engineer new features to meet them; own and automate operations; contribute new ideas and methods to continuously improve quality and development efficiency; innovate in the area of ephemeral compute platforms; and be a maintainer of the Firecracker open source project
- This position also involves on-call responsibilities, which is typically done once every 8 weeks
- We strive to keep this down and ensure our systems are fault tolerant
- Our team values work-life balance and we respect each others time
- At Amazon, we are dedicated to making new team members feel welcome and included
- We are a team that strives to grow each other through task assignments, mentorship, and trainings
- As an Amazonian, you’ll work with some of the most talented engineers in our industry
- We believe in attracting, developing and retaining talent from diverse backgrounds
- We value different perspectives and looking for team players who are working effectively with teams of diverse peers
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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