Software Development Engineer, Amazon Application Recovery Controller

Amazon • Portland, OR

1d

About The Position

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation
of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the
cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage,
networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have
continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging
problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re
looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply
chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles.
You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest
standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at
the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive
culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

The Incident Prevention team is looking for experienced software engineers who
are excited about building large scale systems spanning tens of thousands of
servers, across multiple data-centers worldwide. These are core systems
development positions where you will own the design and development of
significant software components critical to our industry leading database
services architect-ed for the cloud.

In this hands on position you will be asked to do everything from building
rock-solid components to mentoring other engineers. You need to not only be a
top software developer with a good track record of delivering, but also excel in
communication, leadership and customer focus. This is a unique and rare
opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast growing business and
help shape the technology, product and the business. A successful candidate will
bring deep technical and software expertise and ability to work within a fast
moving, startup environment in a large company to deliver high quality code that
has a broad business impact.

About the team
The Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) team builds and operates a
global service that helps customers recover applications during outages. We
provide continuous readiness checks and rapid failover capabilities that improve
application resilience across AWS Regions and Availability Zones. Our team
solves complex distributed systems challenges to ensure customers can maintain
business continuity during disruptions. We're passionate about building highly
available infrastructure that protects mission-critical workloads. We operate at
massive scale, designing solutions that work reliably even when everything else
fails.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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
• Knowledge of AWS services

Responsibilities

• Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
• Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
• Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.
• Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level