Software Development Engineer, AWS Vetting

Software Development Engineer, AWS Vetting

Job  | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Come change the way the world sees the Cloud! We build platforms and tools that ensure the health of AWS hardware by testing every new and rebuilt system across all AWS data centers. Our platform enables service owners such as EC2, EBS, S3, and others to deliver healthy servers for their service to the production. Our team leads a large‑scale service that sets the bar for Amazon and the industry in platform‑level services, effectively enabling the hardware at scale by designing and developing the software that manages the verification and testing of every server in AWS.

Why it’s high‑impact:
We set the bar high to ensure that AWS customers get the capacity they need to run their applications on a healthy hardware server within an SLA.

What’s the challenge:
There are many ambiguous and difficult challenges in our fast‑moving space. Our platform is mission‑critical and requires deep system and software expertise. You need to have the ability to work within a fast moving and startup‑like environment in a large company. You will identify solutions, try ideas, given space to fail and iterate to produce products that your customers love.

Engineers stay close to the customer as well as the architecture and design. Engineers dive deep to understand how things work, when to make subtle change, and when to disrupt the status quo to achieve the right results.

What you will do:

You will be a part of a team to build the next generation of platform‑level software and systems that enables us to deliver healthy hardware to AWS customers. You design and deliver technology solutions which solve difficult business problems.

Who would succeed in this role:
Deeply technical engineers, who stay close to the customer as well as the systems architecture and design. They think about customer experience and the outcome. A person who works autonomously and dives deep into a problem to deeply understand how things work, when to make subtle change, and when to disrupt the status quo to achieve the right results.

Our team puts a high value on work‑life balance. Most days, our teams are co‑located in the Cupertino or Seattle office locations, but we’re also flexible when people occasionally need to work from home.

The positions involve on‑call responsibilities, typically each team follows a standard process to limit the on‑call requirement to a minimum. On average each engineer should expect to be on‑call once every 6 weeks. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.

Our teams are dedicated to supporting new team members. Our teams have a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior engineers truly enjoy mentoring more junior engineers and engineers from non‑traditional backgrounds through one‑on‑one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews.

We care about your career growth. We try to assign projects and tasks based on what will help each team member develop into a better‑rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest…