The AWS Fargate team is responsible for building and operating Serverless Containers solution to help customers run containerized microservices on Amazon ECS, and Amazon EKS. We have an ambitious road-map that seeks to redefine how our customers build their applications and run them at scale. Fargate is one of our biggest areas of investment. Here, we seek to let developers take full-advantage of the speed, agility, and immutability that containers offer so they can focus on building applications rather than managing infrastructure.

Key job responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer for Fargate placement team that owns software at the core of Fargate’s architecture and enables our customers to run their applications which is meant to accelerate cloud adoption. In this role you will have the opportunity to lead and participate in interesting projects, help grow and mentor others on the team, and collaborate with teams across AWS to build features only possible at AWS scale.

A successful candidate will need a strong understanding of software development with Linux, and be comfortable analyzing large amounts of data from multiple sources within a distributed network. You will be responsible for translating business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables with the architecture, design, development, testing, and deployment of highly scalable distributed services.
Obsess over your customers and deliver a first-class experience for them
Take ownership of ambiguous problems and deliver solutions for them
Work on the complete software development life cycle: definition to delivery
Operate a public AWS service with globally distributed customers and servers
Use data to make decisions and validate assumptions
Learn from others and help grow those in your team to achieve their best.

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