Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Cloud Operations

Come join the AWS Cloud Operations team where we’re building the capabilities for our customers to control their cloud resources at unprecedented scale. In the AWS Cloud Operations team, we build massively scaled, distributed platform capabilities for all of AWS, which make it easier for AWS customers to explore, organize, and act on all their AWS resources. These building blocks make it easy for customers to perform common tasks, such as searching, grouping and tagging for their resources and applications in a consistent manner across all AWS services. Together, these systems make it simpler for customers to manage an ever-growing number of resources, across AWS services, from compute, storage and databases to machine learning and AI.

We are rethinking how platform-wide capabilities are delivered, building foundational components of the newly launching Application-centric AWS experience, reinventing how customers discover and interact with their cloud resources.
We are looking for a senior software engineer who is technically strong with deep knowledge in web services, backend storage design, and distributed systems. The ideal candidate takes pride in tackling challenges, excels at working in an agile environment, and gets excited about owning the architecture of a set of critical platform services that serve customers globally every second of every day. This role comes with technical challenges as a well as a broad and diverse customer base. We’re looking for highly motivated, determined engineering leaders to help us rethink fundamental parts of the AWS experience, working collaboratively with teams across AWS. You’ll enjoy working in a team where you’ll have the autonomy to make an impact. We’re committed to nurturing the growth of all our team members, and creating an environment for personal development, as we continually learn from customers. It's still Day 1

About AWS

Diverse Experiences
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.

Why AWS?
Amazon 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.

Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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.

Work/Life Balance
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.

Key job responsibilities
* Solve complex software problems with scalable, extensible solutions, designing and implementing high quality robust solutions
* Engaging with internal customers to understand a business problem to independently form and lead a technology strategy.
* Influencing your team’s technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach.
* Leading and structuring multiple streams of technical delivery - designing, developing, testing and deploying software that demonstrates best practices and sets a standard and an example to others.
* Make technical trade-off decisions.
* Actively participating in the hiring and developing of others, providing technical assessments for SDE promotions and contributing to professional development of colleagues.
* Lead projects to streamline team processes, and create mechanisms to improve the ability of the team to deliver software quickly, reliably and at high quality
* This position involves On-call responsibility. We work as a team to root-cause the issues and ensure our systems are resilient and fault-tolerant

A day in the life
Customers use Resource Management products to organise and operate their cloud resources. Our products need to work across the many hundreds of resources that AWS provides. Your focus is leading your team to deliver software that’s foundational for experiences across AWS, and so must maintain the highest levels of reliability and performance.

On a typical day, you might:

* Design and implement new features and services for customers
* Work with principal engineers and developers across teams to decide on an architectural approach for a new product or feature
* Provide support, guidance and coaching to your team to grow their skills, overcome obstacles, and help them tackle new challenges
* Tackle systematic problems and improve how your team operates, both internally and when interacting with other teams
* Advise managers and senior leaders of the options to deliver a customer request, and the tradeoffs involved.

About the team
We are an EMEA-based team with teams in Germany, the UK, and the Netherlands. We also have teams in the US, mainly based in Seattle and Virginia, together focused on solving specific challenges in the cloud operations space.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re committed to the growth and development of every member of the team, and that includes our development managers. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the culture and direction and deliver site-wide initiatives that will improve the life of all of our teams. AWS is a growth environment - we are scaling rapidly to meet the needs of our customers. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your scope of influence naturally as we scale and will get to hire and develop other leaders along the way.

Utility Computing (UC)

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar, or equivalent professional experience
- Several years of experience developing software, including knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life-cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Strong stakeholder management between users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Strong verbal and written communication skills across all levels of the organization, with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
- Experience in building high-performance, highly-available and scalable systems.
- Experience optimizing for short term execution while planning for long term technical capabilities.
- Experience with modern programming languages (e.g. Kotlin, Java, Rust, Python, C++)
- Experience with Cloud Platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) and Web Service technologies (e.g. HTTP, WSDKL, XSD, REST)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Understanding of distributed system and application performance characteristics
- Experience owning mission critical, 24x7 systems
- Hands-on technical experience with architecting and operating cloud-based distributed systems, including knowledge of related data structures, algorithms, and asynchronous architectures

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