Software Dev Engineer II, Global Connectivity Infrastructure Development
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
We are looking for a high caliber and tested Salesforce Engineer to be a part of a project with strategic significance and high exposure. In this role you will help build and define the designs of the team’s Salesforce.com (SFDC) environment. You will apply both business and technical acumen in a fast-paced, ambiguous and innovative environment.
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.
Did you know there's an estimated 2.5 Billion miles of fiber optical cables placed all around the world!? These cables are deployed underground, on power poles and even along the ocean floor.
This team within the Global Connectivity and Infrastructure Development Organization builds tools to improve the velocity of the acquisition and deployment of AWS network infrastructure across the globe.
We are looking for a developer with strong computer science fundamentals, including UX design, data structures, object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis. If you have a track record of designing and building scalable, complex solutions across distributed systems in an agile environment, we want to talk to you.
Key job responsibilities
•Build and champion a clear strategy and roadmap for solution and all supporting commercial technology.
•Partner with commercial stakeholders to establish a commercial technology roadmap that is aligned to the business strategy and growth goals and maximizes value of connected applications and other third-party tools.
•Collaborate with stakeholders to effectively document and drive platform changes and improvements, working together with technical support resources.
•Serve as the product expert in cross functional efforts to support a timely delivery of high impact projects and acts as the primary support and point of contact for Salesforce.com internal team and system integrations.
•Develop, customize, and administer modules, objects, workflows, dashboards, interfaces, reports, or access levels.
•Ensure integration and data exchange between Salesforce and external services, providers, or platforms.
•Identify and mitigate risks, dependencies, and impacts across cross-functional business and technology team.
•Identify opportunities to improve or automate current state business processes.
A day in the life
The Salesforce Engineer role is within a small, but critical team within the Global Connectivity Infrastructure Development organization. The team has a wide range of responsibilities: we develop tooling roadmaps, implement process solutions, collaborate with peers and stakeholders across organizations to ensure our employees have the efficient tools and processes to execute on their goals. Our infrastructure moves terabits of traffic across the globe to and from the Internet at any given moment, and represents one of the largest networks in the world, requiring complex solutions to ensure that our employees can provide network capacity and always stay ahead of demand.
About the team
Within AWS Networking, the Global Capacity Infrastructure Development organization is responsible for connecting Amazon locations to one another, and then to the global Internet. With connections to thousands in hundreds of locations across the world, our mission is to deliver connectivity experience that sets the global standard for performance, availability, security, and cost, making Amazon the clear choice for our customers’ needs. Our team provides high-performing Internet connectivity for a wide range of use cases, such as retail (amazon.com (http://amazon.com/)), video streaming (Prime Video), content delivery (CloudFront), DNS (Route53), AWS services (such as EC2/S3), consumer devices (such as FireTV/Kindle/Echo), and more.
About 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
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
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.
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.