Amazon Software Development Engineer - Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 dbrown Team 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

195082030

Amazon Web Services is looking for a Software Development Engineer. This position focuses on complex, ambiguous problem areas and innovative software initiatives in the EC2 Dataplane LSE team within the EC2 Infrastructure Services organization. This role requires broad engineering competence and in-depth technical knowledge of software development, DevOps, infrastructure tools and distributed systems, as well as demonstrated experience in planning, organizing, and executing software development projects in a dynamic environment. You will work closely with Security Engineers, Sr. Software Engineers, Principal and Distinguished Engineers throughout AWS to define technical roadmap and follow through with world-class execution.Key job responsibilities
* Design, develop, operate and own large-scale services, architecting them to scale
* Provide technical leadership and mentor lead junior engineers in the team
* Write high quality code to develop new systems, conduct deep design and code reviews
* Solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context, and implementing fixes to ensure that an issue will never happen again
A day in the life

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Excellent written and oral communication skills

- 3+ 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