Amazon Sr Software Development Engineer Global Edge 

United States, Texas, Austin 

217015371

In this high-ownership position, you will guide multiple engineers in developing and maintaining GEC's device management architecture, with particular emphasis on peripheral device management and monitoring solutions. Working with core technologies including Java, Python, TypeScript, Linux, and AWS services such as Greengrass and IoT, you will make crucial architectural decisions about how devices are discovered, registered, and maintained. You will design systems that can effectively troubleshoot issues at scale, including creating dashboards and monitoring tools that provide fleet owners visibility into their device health and status through services like CloudWatch and COSMOS.As a technical leader, you will establish best practices for device management and operational excellence within your team, including designing effective monitoring strategies, creating robust alerting systems, and developing comprehensive runbooks for maintenance and troubleshooting. This greenfield initiative requires you to work closely with other teams to ensure solutions meet their specific needs while maintaining GEC's core tenets of customer ownership and fleet management principles. You will play an active role in translating business requirements into concrete systems and prototyping concepts in partnership with technology leaders across the business.
Key job responsibilities
A successful engineer in this role:- is highly analytical. You solve problems in ways that can be backed up with verifiable data. You focus on driving processes, tools, and statistical methods which support rational decision-making.
- is engaged by ambiguity. You're able to explore new problem spaces with unique constraints and thus non-obvious solutions.
You will identify problems and develop solutions. You embrace performance metrics and measurement techniques because they help you assess how well system-related services are running. You are customer-obsessed and think about what you can do to make their experience better.You will be a role model for other talented engineers, develop their engineering capabilities, and guide them on making the correct technical decisions.Key job responsibilities- You will partner with multiple Software Development Managers, robotics solutions engineers, Product Managers, Technical Program Managers, and customers to innovate in the compute automation space. Our group owns making compute automation scalable and seamless across the globe.A day in the life
The engineer for this role will:- Implement new software by designing, coding and launching global edge compute automation systems- Partner with SDMs and PMs to gather requirements and define features
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

- 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

- 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