DESCRIPTION

WWSO Specialist Technology team (STT) is looking for software engineers who are both passionate and skilled at working on distributed cloud-scale systems. WWSO STT has a mission to develop and bring to market easy-to-use, repeatable, scalable solutions to our customers and our field, while also establishing and enforcing bar raising quality standards for solutions developed across AWS. As part of this team, you will be responsible for helping to design and build one or more systems that together powers our service. You will have the opportunity to work on the development of the end-to-end experience of this service. Roles include working on back-end API development, security and identity, serverless distributed systems, NoSQL data storage, complex event orchestration and automation, real-time data processing, and infrastructure automation. In addition, we face all the usual scale, availability, latency, and co-ordination challenges of running a cloud-scale service.

Great candidates for this position possess a strong understanding of computer science and a passion to learn new technologies to solve complex problems. You will have the opportunity to apply this passion by leveraging your technical skills in areas such as algorithms, distributed systems, web development, front-end/back-end design, and more. As a member of our engineering team, you will ultimately have the opportunity to not only work and learn from others, but also an opportunity to drive the direction of our product and become a technical leader in our greater organization.

Key job responsibilities
You will help our team solve problems such as:
* Design and implement fault-tolerant systems and services that run at large scale and ensure high availability guarantees
* Dive into complex architectures, research and identify new technology that can help optimize performance
* Design and implement software that will help minimize outages and improve the availability of our service

A day in the life
You will be working daily with the Head of Solution Technical Standards, and a team of Software Developers who are responsible for building tooling used worldwide by the AWS field teams.

About the team
Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.