Amazon Software Development Engineer AWS Backup 

Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver 

805685788

Key job responsibilities
- Deliver technical design and high quality code for new features or improvements to existing features- Mentor and lead more junior engineers
- Review peers' technical design and code
A day in the life
Working as part of the AWS backup team you will be spending most of your time building high quality code, writing technical design documents, mentoring more junior engineers, reviewing your peers' code and technical designs, and ensuring the operational health of our systems.
This position involves on-call responsibilities typically for one week every 6 to 8 weeks. When you are on call, you will be dedicated to responding to customer issues and addressing operational problems such as system failures, availability and latency drops. 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.
Throughout all of this you will be surrounded with teammates who will help and support you and occasionally humble you with their foosball playing skills.
Why AWS
Diverse Experiences
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.Work/Life BalanceMentorship and 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.

- 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
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Ability to work through ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly, and driving innovative technical solutions

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions