Software Development Engineer, Developer Experience

Amazon.com Inc

Raleigh, NC

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Application Programming Interface (API), Autoscaling, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Computer Engineering, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Customer Relations, Customer/Client Research, Debugging Skills, Distributed Computing, Ecosystems, Embedded Systems, Functional Testing, High Availability, High Tech Industry, Integration Testing, Inventory Management, Kernel Programming, Laboratory, Leadership, Machine Tool, Mentoring, Metrics, Network Architecture/Engineering, Network Operating Systems, Network Operations Center, Operating Systems, Operations Management, Problem Solving Skills, Product Development, Productivity Management, Quality Engineering, Quality Management, React.js, Safety Standards, Service Delivery, Software Development, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Software Engineering, Startup, Static Analysis, Supply Chain, System Test, Technical Leadership, Technical Support, Technical/Engineering Design, Test Scenario, Testing, Time Management, Training/Teaching, Unit Test, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)
LOCATION
Raleigh, NC
POSTED
30+ days ago

Are you a developer advocate? A builder passionate about incredible software? Are you committed to quality, agility, predictability, and consistency? How about having a great time designing the Future? We are looking for senior Software Development Engineers to help us make this vision a reality. Join us!!!

Our team delivers software services and infrastructure for the Amazon networking OS. We are a builder tools team: we build tools for other builders. Our goal is improving the developer experience, by providing world-class tooling that empowers, enables, and fosters ideas. We champion great engineering practices - we make the right things common, common things easy, and ensure uncommon things are possible. We craft great tools: simple, intuitive, reliable, and "feel nice" - we reduce friction and increase output for the same input. Above all, customers come to us because we are a strong, high-quality, and dependable engineering org. We design the future and better their daily-lives. You will join us to influence, innovate, and raise the bar in this mission!

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain - and we're looking for talented people who want to help.

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.

Key job responsibilities

You will solve complex and ambiguous problems, efficiently and with high-quality. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition, vision, design, roadmap, development, and operationalization of customer-facing services. You will be given an outcome and the freedom to set the direction based on data driven decisions. You will be part of a startup with the backing of a large company.

In this role, you"ll contribute to critical and highly-visible function within the AWS business. You will work alongside other talented builders, and across multiple teams. You have the opportunity to hire and shape the team to continue to outperform expectations. You will incorporate customer input and ensure consistency and intuitiveness of our services. You will build highly available and fault tolerant distributed systems. You'll find this role engaging, challenging, and full of opportunities to learn and grow. You will have a large impact on AWS and the cloud computing industry.

A day in the life

You must ensure our solutions meet the needs of our most important customers - our own developers. You will be a hands-on technical lead. You will work with customers to gather requirements and generate technical designs, and you will carry the project through all the software lifecycle stages. You'll develop products that enable builders to develop and operate robust, high-quality software and safely, securely, and reliably deploy it. You will use your strong leadership and communication skills to mentor other engineers and provide training and support for our technologies. You will have access to senior leadership and engineering staff.

About the team

We serve many customers, and play a critical role and multiplying effect across Networking services. We run very lean and scale with the business, without repeated technical or operational burden. We use Rust, Go, Python (and many other things) in NAWS. We touch everything from embedded systems and kernel, to GRPC/Rest APIs and your favorite front-end stack (ours is React). We own and support every service across different verticals:

  • Product - We own solutions that provide visibility into business-driving metrics, aggregate information, trigger actions, and help leaders manage this domain.
  • Build and release - we own the CI/CD charter. We push commits through pipelines that compile binaries, build images, debug symbols, go through multiple stages of validation, and push updates to millions of devices across the Amazon network. We aim to simplify and reduce the time to release new content to the network, automate processes, etc.
  • Validation and qualification - builders use our testing frameworks to validate the OS. We own tooling for unit/integration/functional/system testing, and static analysis (but don't own the tests). We aim to improve quality by reducing defects, increasing the expressiveness of the testing scenarios, and reducing feedback loop.
  • Infrastructure - we own and support datacenter labs with tooling that manages inventory, reservations, capacity auto-scaling/provisioning/recovery, sanity checks, etc. This is the underlying infrastructure of the ecosystem.

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.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon 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.

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.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and 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.

Working at AWS in the Core Networking Team • Meet Matt, Director, Core Networking --- https://youtu.be/DqTStjRtjX4

About the Company

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Amazon.com Inc

At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1994
WEBSITE
http://Amazon.com/militaryroles