Senior Software Development Engineer, Fleet Automation and Release Orchestration (FAROS)

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.

Are you a developer advocate? A builder passionate about working with complex data and developing innovate and insightful solutions based on data?

Do you enjoy automating ambiguous & repetitive manual tasks? 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 Engineer to help us build products to improve performance of AWS's large scale network. Join us!!!

Working at AWS in the Core Networking Team

Meet Matt, Director, Core Networking

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. You will be a hands-on technical lead. You will work with customers to gather requirements and generate technical designs to carry the project through all the software lifecycle stages.

You’ll develop products that enable network engineers to develop and operate robust, high-quality networks safely, securely, and reliably deploy it.

You will have an opportunity to work directly with data and models to analyze network performance intelligently. 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 have created a new team that will own several new highly-visible initiatives and goals that will impact the whole organization as well as benefit across orgs.

This includes developing and integrating various software solutions and collaborating with multiple teams and customers in order to achieve the goal of building software systems to deploy changes to the AWS datacenter network reliably.

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.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Seattle, WA, USA

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
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems, multi-threaded programming, virtualization, complex data, models (statistical or ML)
30+ days ago