Amazon Software Development Engineer AWS Vetting 

United States, California, Cupertino 

267003912

There are many ambiguous and difficult challenges in our fast-moving space. Our platform is mission critical and requires deep system and software expertise. You need to have the ability to work within a fast moving and startup-like environment in a large company. You will identify solutions, trying ideas, given space to fail and iterate to produce products that your customers love.
Our systems ensure that AWS data centers run correctly and efficiently and that our leadership has visibility into every step of every process.
The positions involve some on-call responsibilities, typically each team follows a standard process to limit the on-call requirement to a minimal. On average each engineer should expect to be on-call once every 6 weeks. 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.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.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.
Key job responsibilities
In this role your responsibilities are and not limited to:
- Solve complex problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices.
- Work on project ideas with customers, stakeholders, peers and helping balance customer requirements with team requirements.- Improve and focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions.
- Work to resolve the root cause of complex problems, leaving software better and easier to maintain than when you found it.A day in the life
Engineers work in fast-moving space and have a large number of ambiguous challenges. Our projects require deep technical and software expertise and the ability to work within a fast moving, startup environment in a large company. You will be responsible for identifying solutions, trying ideas, given space to fail and iterate to produce products that your customers love. Software Engineers stay close to the customer as well as the architecture and design. Engineers dive deep to understand how things work, when to make subtle change, and when to disrupt the status quo to achieve the right results

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 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
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience in computer architecture
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

- 4+ years of building production software experience
- 4+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- - Experience in Linux Operating Systems and their sub systems
- - Experience in distributed software architecture at scale