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Amazon Software Dev Engineer II, Enterprise Engineering in Austin, Texas
Description
Amazon strives to be the world’s most customer centric company. To succeed, our products and services must be available at all times to our customers. The Enterprise Engineering Availability (EEA) team is responsible for improving the availability of internal systems (software, hardware, network) used by millions of Amazonians around the world.
A software engineer on the EEA team will develop greenfield observability and detection systems used to predict, detect and triage customer-impacting outages of internal Amazon IT systems. These will streamline the incident management process by diagnosing the root cause of an outage, identifying the right team(s) to engage and providing recommendations on how to mitigate the problem.
This role is a perfect fit for an experienced engineer who is passionate about availability (alerting, metrics, monitoring, observability), incident management and machine learning. You thrive in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, build full-stack applications, communicate effectively to all types of stakeholders (tech, non-tech), enjoy learning new technology and ship complex software at scale in fast iterations.
A day in the life
Deliver high-impact, high-visibility projects that improve the productivity of millions of Amazonians around the world
Invent processes, tools, and technology to force multiply the effect of your contributions across many organizations.
Be responsible for owning, scoping, leading and delivering projects and experiments end-to-end, leveraging statistical evaluation, pattern recognition, and machine learning.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Austin, TX, USA
Basic Qualifications
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
Preferred Qualifications
3+ 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
Experience building and maintaining large-scale, high-availability distributed systems
Excellent oral and written communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Experience using data to make priority decisions and taking those initiatives from scoping through production launch into daily operation.
Understanding of CI/CD, test automation and robust system health monitoring (metrics, monitors, alarms)
Experience with incident management
Experience with telemetry and observability systems
Experience with anomaly detection, time-series data and storage, data streaming
Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts, practices
Experience with statistical analysis and machine learning
Experience influencing engineering team members on best practices (full SDLC inclusive of coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations)
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