Job Description
Software Development Engineer, Amazon EC2 CoreDESCRIPTIONAWS 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.Who we are: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Amazon EC2 Core Platform Services team owns the foundational services that enable our customers to launch millions of EC2 instances every day. The team is focused on software development for various aspects of the EC2 core platform engineering including provisioning systems, business intelligence, and region planning. At Amazon, it is all about working hard, having fun and making history. If you are ready to make history, we want to hear from you!What you will do: You will make a tremendous impact on Amazon's business by enhancing and building tools and services for the EC2 core platform. You will have the opportunity to leverage Amazon Web Services and a wide variety of technologies and frameworks.We're building web services in Java, Go, Ruby and back-end infrastructure built on top of Amazon Web Services. Our full stack currently includes (but not limited to), DynamoDB, RDS, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS, Lambda and S3.We're building scalable high-throughput provisioning services, used to provide capacity for building EC2 and AWS itself!We are responsible end-to-end for all products we design and launch, and your team will support the full lifecycle of what you own.Key job responsibilitiesAn SDE on the team is required to understand our software, deliver major improvements and features that meet critical business needs, and to support our systems operationally. The code developers deliver must be highly maintainable and available, as our systems are pivotal to the availability of AWS. SDEs are expected to become subject matter experts on the technology operated by the team with a rich knowledge of systems, how they work, and what business use cases they were designed to address. Finally, developers must always be finding new ways to improve our systems. Developers on the team are full stack engineers required to be able to work with low level Linux and network components, as well as much more abstract technologies, like micro services and websites.BASIC QUALIFICATIONSExperience (non-internship) in professional software developmentExperience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systemsExperience programming with at least one software programming languagePREFERRED QUALIFICATIONSExperience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operationsBachelor's degree in computer science or equivalentExperience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers #J-18808-Ljbffr