Sr. Software Engineer - AWS Fargate

Job ID : 2645398 Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Read on to find out what you will need to succeed in this position, including skills, qualifications, and experience.

The AWS Container Services organization is responsible for building and operating some of the core services that help customers run containerized microservices, including Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Fargate, Amazon ECR, and AWS App Mesh.

We have a highly committed roadmap that seeks to redefine how our customers build their applications and run them at scale.

AWS Fargate is one of our big areas of investment. We are tasked with giving developers and operators simple yet powerful experiences that allow them to focus on their code and business needs without the need to become experts at the underlying container orchestration infrastructure.

To achieve this vision, we are looking for a Software Engineer to both work on challenging technical problems and serve as a leader on the team, helping grow and mentor others.

This is a great time to join a growing business and help influence what we can do for customers who are adopting serverless containers and all the benefits Fargate brings them.

If you are someone who is passionate about building high quality services, delighting developers, and have a passion for customers and developer relations, this job is for you.

You will be joining a team with the charter to make containers the new compute primitive and the first choice when architecting modern applications.

You will have the chance to be a part of defining how developers use containers at scale.

Responsibilities

• Obsess over your customers and deliver a first-class experience for them.
• Influence team’s long-term technical investments by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach.
• Actively coach or mentor multiple L4 and L5 engineers on the team to help them grow in their roles.
• Take ownership of ambiguous problems and deliver solutions for them.
• Drive SDLC best practices leading by example working very efficiently, delivering frequently and incrementally.
• Work closely with SDMs to scope projects and break them down into smaller, parallelizable work items.
• Collaborate with, and build effective working relations with peers across various orgs and unblock AWS services.

About Us

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 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

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.

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.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300 / year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500 / year in our highest geographic market.

Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and / or other benefits.

This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Posted : June 20, 2024 (Updated about 1 hour ago)

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