Software Development Engineer EC2 Managed Fleets

Come help us build automation that manages millions of hosts for Amazon.

The Managed Fleets team abstracts host and fleet management away from thousands of service teams across Amazon freeing up engineers to build services and deliver value to our customers. We operate at scale and manage millions of hosts keeping them safe secure and efficient. To achieve this requires us to innovate and keep abreast with the latest cuttingedge technologies.

Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll 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 their cloud services.


Key job responsibilities
On the Managed Fleets team you will get to build innovative software that lets customers define the shape and size of their fleets and to monitor the health and efficiency of how they are run. You will be using technologies like Java Typescript React and Python as well as various Native AWS services and Amazoninternal tools. We dont expect you to be an expert in or know all these technologies listed but we do expect you to be excited to learn about them. As an experienced engineer in this team you will play a committed role in developing high quality software designs & solutions to our often complex problems.

This position involves oncall responsibilities. This is typically once every 6 weeks. We dont like to be paged unnecessarily and we strive to keep this down and ensure our systems are fault tolerant. Our team values worklife balance and respect each others time.


A day in the life
A successful Software Development Engineer will have good design skills an excellent ability to solve problems good communication skills and a desire to be a key technical contributor. The software you will be responsible for will require a breadth of technical development knowledge (i.e. distributed systems synchronous API orchestration scalability availability).

Daily work will involve interacting with engineers stakeholders and managers. We are just starting to scratch the surface of the opportunity in front of us and if this sounds like a place for you; come build with us and have Amazonscale impact.

About the team
Our team supports each other in growing both personally and in our careers. We drive a high bar for quality via our design and code review processes. We also make time for social activities and to have fun at work.

About AWS
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3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including objectoriented design

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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