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Amazon Software Development Engineer, EC2 Nitro Deployments in Seattle, Washington
Description
Are you passionate about technology and solving hard problems? Do you want to grow your skills as you help us grow and scale the world's largest cloud computing service? Do you want to make history and have fun doing it? If so, Amazon Web Services Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) is looking for people just like you! EC2 is at the core of AWS services and we are growing every day to meet the demands of our business as we continue to scale.
EC2 Nitro drives the planet’s largest, fastest growing and most feature-rich compute cloud. Nitro is AWS’s ground-up design for virtualization at global scale built on a fully custom stack of hardware, firmware and applications. Nitro has enabled EC2 to support Intel, AMD and Amazon’s custom silicon (Graviton) while raising the industry bar for security and performance across our product line.
Wondering how EC2 Nitro deploys software to one of the largest cloud fleets in the world? We are the EC2 Nitro Deployment team and we build the services responsible for safely deploying software to millions of EC2 hosts in over 30 geographic regions across over a hundred availability zones. We do this by innovating on how to approach updating a fleet of our size and then turning those ideas into a highly available and scalable globally distributed system that provides the mechanisms to ensure the fleet is always up to date. Everything we do has to keep the safety of the EC2 fleet in mind as we are the last line of defense to limit the blast radius of failure modes that can impact customers like Netflix, NASA, Expedia, Snap, and Epic Games.
You will work in Java, Kotlin, S3, DynamoDB, and other public AWS services and Amazon-internal tools. We don’t expect you to be an expert in, or necessarily even be familiar with, all the technologies listed above. We also don’t expect you to be an expert in deployment systems as the problems we must solve are unlike the things most people have ever had to think about.
In this role you will will design build and deploy highly available, distributed, fault tolerant services to empower AWS teams to launch new platforms and maintain availability and durability of the AWS cloud.
Key job responsibilities
Own design, development, test, deployment and operation of services that our customers depend on
Collaborate with team members and other teams across AWS to design, and build innovative products
Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software
Conduct peer code reviews
Mentor intern or less experienced SDEs on the team
Participate in an on-call rotation to support the services owned by the team
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
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.