Amazon Sr Software Development Engineer AWS 

United States, Washington, Bellevue 

408759232

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.
What you will do: Our developers own the projects that set the bar for Amazon and the industry for platform level service, effectively enabling the data center operations at scale by writing the software that manages all aspects of global AWS data center operations. In this role you will be building the next generation of platform level software. You regularly work with senior AWS leadership to plan for the future.What’s the challenge: Our space is fast-moving, and has a large number of ambiguous and difficult 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. We will be building solutions to automatically build a shift plan for technicians based on a number of factors involved.Key job responsibilities
* Tech lead or leading an engineering team
* Own, design, build, and deliver technically challenging projects
* Grow more junior engineers and be force multiplier
* Identify operational challenges early in the system and drive operational excellence
* Contribute to and lead the improvements in development processes
* Insist on highest standards for the long term system extensibility and scalability
Diverse Experiences
AWS 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.Mentorship & 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.Work/Life Balance

- 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