Software Development Engineer, EC2 Managed AWS Geographic Expansion

Description
EC2 Managed AWS Geographic Expansion is the team responsible to build one of Earth's largest distributed systems - EC2 - at scale. We own the software and tooling to build the foundation of the cloud in new Regions and Availability zones and our team is growing to support a senior leadership strategic initiative.
AWS is the industry leader in Cloud Computing. We enable our customers to dynamically scale their computing capacity as needed. They sky is the limit! You will have the opportunity to implement tooling that interacts with a broad set of EC2 services ensuring we can build one EC2 at scale. We create the tools needed to deploy new EC2 in a fully automated fashion with zero human touch. This work requires innovative solutions for managing complex large scale deployments including configuration, service migration, dependency detection and management and more.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Not all applicants have skills that match qualifications exactly. We encourage applicants with alternative experience to also apply.
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. 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
- Working collaboratively, shape the vision and strategy for solving business problems in AR tech space focussed on improving collection efficiency.
- Mentor, grow, and share the journey to deliver with quality.
- Deep dive, develop and deliver systems that are highly maintainable. Technical leader for the team with the ability to deliver against all odds.
- Data driven approach for making right architecture decisions, managing business priorities
A day in the life
SDEs on EC2 Managed AWS Geographic Expansion balance their time writing / shipping code, designing new systems / components to solve complex technical / business problems, mentoring others, responding to operational events, and having fun!
We apply agile-scrum methodologies to our development approach with daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives. Engineers have regular 1:1s with their managers to set goals and track career progression.
We work closely with every foundational AWS service teams including S3, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, and SWF to deliver capabilities to enable zero-touch region build.
About the team
The EC2 Managed AWS Geographic Expansion team was formed 7 years ago to tackle the unique and complex technical challenges that arise from building new AWS Regions & Availability Zones. Many of the tenured Amazonians who formed this team are still on it today.
Our engineers enjoy the ability to work broadly across all the services that comprise EC2 and Dive Deep into the complexities of automating the instantiation of a massive distributed system.
We have fun with regular happy hours, AmA sessions, and team outings. We work as a team and support our collective learning and growth.
Basic Qualifications
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, VA, Arlington - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually