The Capacity Life Cycle (CLC) team’s mission is to ensure that EC2’s customers get the virtual machines they need to operate some of the world’s most well-known online businesses, like amazon.com. This includes tackling the unprecedented demand for the hardware-accelerated servers necessary to train and operate tomorrow's AI models. We're looking for an experienced software development engineer who is excited to join our Seattle-based team to help us deliver solutions in support of AWS's largest customers.

Key job responsibilities
As an SDE on our team, you will work with our business stakeholders and other engineers to tackle ambiguous problems, designing and implementing solutions at every layer of the stack, all while enhancing your knowledge of how to architect in the cloud at scale. You will work independently, with the support of the team, to make appropriate business and technical tradeoffs and deliver elegant solutions to our customers.

Today our team own services, web applications, and data pipelines, written in Java, Ruby, TypeScript, and Python. We architect our solutions using AWS’s cloud services as our building blocks. Familiarity with the technology that we use today is not a prerequisite to joining the team; we’re looking for candidates who are passionate about learning and solving problems for our customers.

This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don’t like getting paged, so we work hard to ensure that our systems are resilient. When problems arise, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t have to deal with the issue again.

A day in the life
Our engineers participate in all team rituals including daily stand-ups, weekly operations meetings, sprint planning meetings (every two weeks), and design reviews (as needed). Your typical day will entail writing and reviewing code, designing new system components, and attending one or two meetings.

Our team is invested in your career growth and success. We work to select projects that balance the needs of the business with what will help you develop into a more well-rounded engineer and enable you to take on greater responsibility and more complex tasks in the future. You will have opportunities to learn from more senior engineers as well as mentor less experienced teammates.

About the team
The CLC team operates within the EC2 Capacity Customer Experience (CCX) organization, dedicated to ensuring that software teams can get the compute capacity they need to build and grow their companies. Historically, our focus has been on providing EC2 ordering experiences for internal customers in AWS and amazon.com. More recently, we’ve expanded to tackle supply-demand matching problems for AWS’s largest external customers, including in the machine learning space.

As a team, we enjoy connecting socially while respecting the balance between work and personal life. We’ll frequently go to lunch or happy hour together and, a few times a year, participate in a team or org-wide fun event.

Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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.
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