Sr. SDE, AWS Builder Acceleration

Description

Are you passionate about leveraging GenAI and advanced AWS technologies to simplify builder experience and accelerate innovations at AWS scale? We are building a new organization, AWS Builder Acceleration (AWSBA), focused on reducing toil and increasing building efficiency across AWS builders. Our mission is to accelerate AWS builder teams' innovation by eliminating friction throughout the software development and operational lifecycle. Through AI based automated solutions and centralized service management, we address fundamental challenges including Keep The Light On (KTLO) service maintenance burden, launch readiness complexities, and recurring operational load.

Through continuous collaboration with builder teams to identify emerging challenges, we shape our strategic roadmap to reinvent the development and operational ecosystem.

We are seeking an Sr. SDE to lead AWSBA to simplify and accelerate the software development experience for 20,000+ AWS engineers. You will shape AWS builder experience from the ground up with a singular mission: make software development, deployment and maintenance simpler across AWS. Success requires building services and tools that reduce friction, listening closely to what your internal customers tell you gets in the way of building, influencing the Amazon Software Builder Experience (ASBX) roadmap, and driving transformation for engineering teams.

You will harness advanced technologies, including AI-powered tooling, agentic workflows, and innovative AWS solutions, to create next-generation software builder experience at AWS scale.

This role requires ownership, autonomy, and an ability to deliver results. You should be a self-starter with a bias towards independent problem solving. Clear communication and prioritization will be important as you partner with stakeholders to plan, design, and deliver game changing builder experiences to accelerate innovation. Your passion for improving builder experiences, and proven experience managing complex technology projects, will help you make strong strategic judgments.

Your expertise is deep and broad. You start with the customers (builders) and work backwards to develop a coherent vision for services and tools that support the efficiency, flexibility and scale that builders expect from us. You have built and operated systems that support high-end business complexity and scale with simple and elegant solutions that are highly decoupled. You will be responsible for setting up the technical vision for your team in AWSBA org and join a select team of innovators creating the next generation of AWS builder experiences that will shape the company's future.

Key job responsibilities

- Define and drive long term technical strategy for your team in AWSBA org.

- Identify and prioritize high-impact problems that impede AWS software development

- Decompose complex builder problems into simple, straightforward and scalable solutions.

- Develop a team roadmap that delivers meaningful improvements weekly while working toward long-term transformation

- Establish team culture and coach other SDEs to set new standards for the ideal software builder experience

- Partner closely with ASBX while focusing on AWS specific challenges

Unique Opportunities

- Re-imagine how developers build and operate the software that underpins the world's largest cloud

- Drive significant transformation across AWS engineering

- Pioneer the use of cutting-edge generative AI technologies to create the next generation of builder experiences.

A day in the life

You should have deep expertise in the architecture and business use of AWS technologies. You recognize the transformative potential of generative AI in software development and are excited to pioneer AI-powered builder experiences that fundamentally change how developers write, debug, deploy and operate code  remain technically hands-on and close to the technology. You're passionate about developer experience and get frustrated by inefficiencies that make building software unnecessarily difficult.

You understand the challenges AWS developers face today and have a clear vision for improvement. You spend time listening to teams across AWS and validating that your teams are working on the right problems, and the solutions meaningfully simplify the AWS developer experience across all teams. You should be an authority at crafting, implementing, and operating scalable solutions to increase building efficiency across AWS builders.

You are a visionary leader, builder and operator. You have experience leading or contributing to complex software development initiatives. You are able to balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology. You'll strive for simplicity and will demonstrate significant creativity.

Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

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