Software Development Engineer, AWS Vetting

Software Development Engineer, AWS Vetting

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Description

Come change the way the world sees the Cloud!

What do we do? 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 services to 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.

What you will do? You will be part of a team building 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 that solve difficult business problems.

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

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

On‑Call Responsibility:
The positions involve on‑call responsibilities. On average each engineer should expect to be on‑call once every six weeks.

Mentorship & Career Growth:
Our teams are dedicated to supporting new team members. 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 and try to assign projects that help each team member develop into a better‑rounded engineer.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure, supporting data centers and all hardware, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Solve complex problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices.
• Focus on a major portion of existing or new team software, including significant components, sets of features, or mid‑size applications or services.
• Work with your team to invent, design, and build software that is stable and performant, writing code that an SDE unfamiliar with the system can understand.
• Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, and peers to balance customer requirements with team requirements.
• Actively participate in code review process, design discussions, team planning, and ticket/metric/COE reviews.
• Improve and focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions.
• Work to resolve the root cause of complex problems, leaving software better and easier to maintain.
• Support training new team‑mates on how your team’s software is constructed, operates, secures, and fits into the bigger picture.

About The Team:
Vetting, Monitoring, and Provisioning is a software organization within AWS that develops services for preparing, validating, and monitoring the health and security of AWS servers worldwide. We enable data‑center operation teams, hardware engineering, and service owners such as EC2, EBS, and S3 to manage, secure, test, monitor, and update their devices at scale.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 3+ years of non‑internship…