Software Development Engineer, Elastic Block Storage; EBS), Capacity Optimization

Join Amazon Web Services (AWS) and help us optimize one of the world’s largest cloud fleets. We are seeking a software development engineer for the Elastic Block Storage (EBS) Capacity Engineering team to build distributed systems, Agentic solutions, and Web applications that manage EBS’s fleet of servers powering some of the world’s largest websites and cloud services. EBS is the solid state drive for the Internet.

You will help design, build, and operate software services that touch every AWS data center in the world. We want your help to optimize EBS on-hand capacity allocation plans and improve availability for all customers, while aiming to up fleet utilization at scale.

As a Software Development Engineer on this team, you will own the full lifecycle of software that manages EBS’s server fleet in real time. You will build and extend our server allocation service - the system that decides which EBS servers go to which pools, orchestrates server migrations and retirements, and ensures capacity is correctly structured to serve customer workloads. Your algorithms will directly determine whether customers can create storage when they need it, across every AWS region in the world.

You will partner with engineers inside and outside the EBS organization to integrate our services with capacity planning, provisioning, and fleet health systems.

You will have a leadership role within your team to shape technical direction and continuously improve how we build and deliver software. We value strong owners who are excited to solve hard problems at massive scale and put their stamp on the future of the cloud.

Come help us move EBS capacity management to the next level!

• Design and develop highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and efficient distributed systems to power AWS services. Author code that is logically correct, efficient, easily extensible, and well tested.
• Deliver software features and improvements to major portions of our team’s software. This is not just new software but often includes refactoring work.
• Write clear, concise design documents to communicate technical solutions working backwards from customers’ problems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers and other engineers, to define and implement technical solutions that meet business requirements.
• Perform code reviews, provide technical guidance, and mentor junior engineers to help them grow their skills.
• Proactively influence technical decisions for both your own feature work and your peers so that we make the right technical investments. Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices, and proactively introduce new ideas and innovations to the team.
• Contribute actively to daily team meetings and our software lifecycle processes. Track your work autonomously and deliver results.
• Be active in operational support for our team, and ensure that the root causes of operational issues are identified and resolved. You don’t settle for the status quo and routinely identify and execute on opportunities to improve our team’s operations.

As a Software Engineer on the EBS Capacity Engineering team, your day will involve joining agile meetings, authoring design documents that work backward fr