Software Development Engineer, Amazon

• This role may be for you if you are passionate about autonomous software systems that transform the way networks are built and operated
• You build high quality, highly available, always-on services. You're happiest when you're working with empowered, world-class leaders and engineers to meet world-class challenges
• Finally, with your curiosity and strong ownership bias, you have an infectious desire to continually improve how things are done
• 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

Desirable

• We are currently looking for a senior software development engineer to help us deliver the future of software control systems at the core of our global network
• Engineers will build software that will allow AWS to understand, build and improve the reliability of the physical AWS network. Our customers need this geospatial data to visualize a network that crosses the entire plant, identify where in the real-world availability risk lies and to plan exponential network growth.
• Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security
• Write high quality distributed system software
• Enjoy seeing the impact of your work has on customers
• Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff
• Take ownership and do what it takes to get the job done
• Learn from others and help grow those in your team to achieve their best
• Engineers in the organization have a wide range of responsibilities: we work with internal partners to develop and implement the next gen platforms along with the tooling ecosystems to support with these platforms driving efficiency and scalability through the automation of builds, configuration deployment, and the scaling of capacity
• Work in a 24x7 team on call rotation, with ability to drive into workplace for critical events/needs
• Our team develops tooling that provides the required visibility and control of traffic across the network, while prioritizing the automatic mitigation of events to minimize the impact to our customers during events
• Manage customers during problem resolution and operating efficiently under pressure
• Sit at the computer during scheduled work hours with appropriate breaks while maintaining a high level of alertness and attention to detail
• Travel to data center/network sites and Amazon/customer offices as needed