Description

　　EC2 Catalyst is the team responsible to build one of Earth's largest distributed systems - EC2 - at scale. We own the software and tooling to build the foundation of the cloud in new Regions and Availability zones and our team is growing to support a senior leadership strategic initiative.

　　AWS is the industry leader in Cloud Computing. We enable our customers to dynamically scale their computing capacity as needed. They sky is the limit! You will have the opportunity to implement tooling that interacts with a broad set of EC2 services ensuring we can build one EC2 at scale. We create the tools needed to deploy new EC2 in a fully automated fashion with zero human touch. This work requires innovative solutions for managing complex large scale deployments including configuration, service migration, dependency detection and management and more.

　　Inclusive Team Culture

　　Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

　　Not all applicants have skills that match qualifications exactly. We encourage applicants with alternative experience to also apply.

　　Work/Life Balance

　　Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

　　This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. 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.

　　Mentorship & Career Growth

　　Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects 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.

　　A day in the life

　　SDEs on Catalyst balance their time writing / shipping code, designing new systems / components to solve complex technical / business problems, mentoring others, responding to operational events, and having fun!

　　We apply agile-scrum methodologies to our development approach with daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives. Engineers have regular 1:1s with their managers to set goals and track career progression.

　　We work closely with other foundational AWS service teams including S3, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, and SWF to deliver capabilities to enable zero-touch region build.

　　About the team

　　The EC2 Catalyst team was formed 7 years ago to tackle the unique and complex technical challenges that arise from building new AWS Regions & Availability Zones. Many of the tenured Amazonians who formed this team are still on it today.

　　Our engineers enjoy the ability to work broadly across all the services that comprise EC2 and Dive Deep into the complexities of automating the instantiation of a massive distributed system.

　　We have fun with regular happy hours, AmA sessions, and team outings. We work as a team and support our collective learning and growth.

　　We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

　　Herndon, VA, USA

　　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

　　Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.