About the position
Are you passionate about technology and solving hard problems? Do you want to grow your skills as you help us grow and scale the world's largest cloud computing service? Do you want to make history and have fun doing it? If so, Amazon Web Services Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) is looking for people just like you! EC2 is at the core of AWS services and we are growing every day to meet the demands of our business as we continue to scale. EC2 Nitro drives the planet’s largest, fastest growing and most feature-rich compute cloud. Nitro is AWS’s ground-up design for virtualization at a global scale built on a fully custom stack of hardware, firmware and applications. Nitro has enabled EC2 to support Intel, AMD and Amazon’s custom silicon - Graviton - while raising the industry bar for security and performance across our product line. The EC2 Provisioning team is the assembly line for EC2, turning new servers into EC2 virtualized hosts running customer workloads across the globe. Every EC2 customer instance running on every host-type, in every data center, across the globe has passed through services operated by this team. EC2 Provisioning engineers become subject matter experts on distributed, asynchronous services running at global scale. Our system maintains EC2 fleet health by safely orchestrating rack maintenance, migrations, and retirements by through orchestration based on compute capacity needs and availability forecast. The team's problem space is diverse and interesting and you will have ample opportunity to work with a variety of exciting technologies in support of maximizing the health of all compute workloads across our infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Develop in languages such as Java, Python, Go or Ruby in a Linux environment.
- Engage in the full lifecycle of software development, including requirements, system design, implementation, testing, monitoring, alarming and reporting.
- Work closely with EC2 Principal Engineers and other technical leaders to refine technical direction.
- Conduct detailed analysis, designs, and produce high quality code.
- Think of unique and innovative solutions to engineering problems.
- Own everything from end to end: requirements gathering, designs, design reviews, implementations, code reviews, incremental feature launches, operations, mentoring, and driving continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Strong knowledge and experience in software development.
- Experience with distributed systems.
- Ability to work in a Linux environment.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with cloud computing services.
- Familiarity with orchestration and fleet management.
