Description

The EC2 Customer Capacity Experience Team is looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer to join our Arlington-based team. EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute) is a part of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the global leader in public cloud infrastructure

Our team owns a collection of products that support EC2, advancing the science of fleet management for the world's most sophisticated collection of public computing resources. These products include software services and web applications that help manage the scalable and efficient delivery of EC2 compute capacity to customers.

Our team leverages a variety of tools including Java, Javascript, Node.js, React, SQL, Ruby, DynamoDB, SNS/SQS, CloudWatch, and Lambda, as well as a wide array of internal AWS tools. Applicants don't need to be experts in all of these tools, but should be excited to learn new tools and how they can be used to solve problems in a complex, evolving software and hardware environment.

This role is primarily focused on architecting and writing code for back-end service development, with some middle/front-end work. We create solutions and also the metrics to monitor and measure our success. Our team not only delivers its own products and services, but also partners closely with other AWS engineering and business teams to jointly deliver impactful projects for our customers. The ability to communicate and collaborate effectively, both written and verbal, is essential to our success

As a new team member, you'll be expected to tackle ambiguous problems, work independently to make business and technical trade-offs in order to deliver results. But you can also expect receive support from fellow team members who will answer questions and work collaboratively to solve day-to-day problems and issues. As an experienced engineer, you will have opportunities to mentor less experienced engineers even as you rub shoulders with other senior engineers in our organization.

You will be welcomed as a fully participating team member in team rituals including daily stand-ups, design review sessions, demos, code reviews, and other team gatherings. As a team, we enjoy connecting socially while respecting the balance between work and personal life.

This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically one week every two months. We focus on building fault-tolerant systems to minimize being paged during off-hours, and when we do get paged, we make sure to root-cause issues and resolve them to eliminate repeat pages, fueling continual improvement.

As a team, we're invested in your career growth and success. We assign projects that balance the needs of the business with what will help each team member develop into a more well-rounded engineer and enable them to take on greater responsibility and more complex tasks in the future.

We're looking for someone who will enthusiastically participate in a team culture that values delivering results for our customers, consistently learning and growing, striving for excellence in operations & project deliverables.

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. Amazons 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.

By delivering high-performance, low-cost computing with a few clicks and a credit card, AWS is changing the world by democratizing access to the same industry-leading on-line resources, whether you're a large enterprise our a budding entrepreneur. Come join us.

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

Arlington, VA, 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

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