Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the pioneer and recognized leader in cloud computing. We provide a platform for IT infrastructure in-the-cloud that is used by hundreds of thousands of developers and businesses around the world. Our customers range from start-ups to leading web companies to Global 2000 companies across industries. AWS's customers are looking for ways to improve their business models and solve complex customer challenges leveraging AWS's robust suite of solutions. With AWS Outposts, customers can run fully managed solutions delivering AWS infrastructure and services to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience. We are hiring engineers who thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative and open environment, who aren't afraid to dive-deep to solve seemingly impossible challenges, who want to build rock solid 24x7 never-fail, highly-secure, software at world-class scale and who obsess over customers. A successful candidate will be customer focused, passionate about using systems to solve complex problems, and able to balance delivering incremental improvements with long-term vision. A deep technical understanding and a desire to learn about complex systems is a must as you will bridge processes across many nuanced and complex systems. Solid systems development fundamentals and systems design skills will provide the foundation for your initial onboarding as you are coached and mentored by engineering and technical business experts to keep you on your desired career trajectory. Bring your curiosity and come work with a team of diverse professionals across multiple organizations and be part of building AWS’s future at the Edge.

Position Overview

SDEs in the EC2 Edge organization are autonomous contributors to their team's software for building and maintaining scalable services, tools, and processes that manage Edge devices throughout their lifecycle from ordering to when an asset's useful life is over.
You will deliver working features spanning the full software lifecycle including working backwards from customers, software design, implementation, testing, deployment, operations, and documentation. Your code will be of high-quality and you'll make regular commits to contribute to the team's codebase. You'll also coach others on producing high quality code and following engineering best practices. You'll ensure that when software fails, the root cause is identified and eliminated with a permanent fix.

Work/Life Balance

Our team takes work-life balance seriously. We believe it's not about counting hours—it's about cultivating a rhythm that brings energy to everything you do. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives. This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Key job responsibilities

- Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market
- Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry at incredible scale and speed
- Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality, maintainable code with comprehensive documentation
- Mentor and coach team members on software engineering best practices
- Drive root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes for production issues

A day in the life

- Writing code in a variety of languages and technologies, from AWS Lambda to scripting languages on bare metal where necessary.
- Writing detailed specifications and work break down documents for upcoming work
- Participation in standups, retrospectives, code reviews, design reviews, operational retrospectives.

About the team

Our team is focused on the ordering, billing, and installation lifecycle of the Outposts family of products. We have an enthusiastic and supportive team that enjoys working on the product we build. This team gets a very unique view of our customers and product as we follow an Outpost from order, through setup to decommission. It's a great team to join to expand your career in modern web services, or to grow in the complexity of an industry leading managed service that brings AWS on-premise. Our team is Seattle based.