DESCRIPTION
AWS 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.
The Group:
AWS Data Services group provides rapidly growing, industry acclaimed cloud services in areas of big data platforms to data analytics to operational databases and machine learning. The group is at the forefront of innovation in these areas producing world-class cloud services and experiences.
The Team:
We are focused on delivering an outstanding builder experience across analytics and ML. Out customers are Data Engineers, Data Scientists, SQL Analysts and IT Administrators and we work across AWS services to enable a holistic experience.
Top reasons to join our team:
– Be catalyst to deliver a truly disruptive product while it is in infancy state
– Solve unique and first-order problems in areas of Machine Learning, Big Data, Distributed Systems, and Serverless
– Influence and build products that will leverage scale of resources to orchestrate data workflow
– Be part of big data revolution in cloud
About you:
– Excited about the opportunity to apply machine learning to solve customer requirements in our data platform
– Passionate about building large scale distributed systems
– Thrive in a culture of ownership, delivery and bias for action
– Fast pace environment energizes you to be at your best
– Innovate and invent in agile and collaborative environment
– Curious and eager to learn to expect more about yourself and others
The Responsibilities:
– Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture, design and extensible code
– Be an advocate of industry best-practices to produce reliable, fault-torrent and dependable code
– Code and test complex system modules; develop and leverage frameworks to be effective and efficient
– Participate in architecture, design and code reviews to maintain our high development standards
– Own system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance
– Collaborate and influence other teams to deliver and operate large scale, distributed services in the cloud
– Mentor other engineers, defining our challenging technical culture, and helping to build a fast-growing team
About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS 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.
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.
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 & 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.
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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
– 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
– 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
– Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– 5+ 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