Software Development Engineer, Event Outfitters Engineering

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a passionate Software Development Engineer to join their dynamic team. In this role, you will design and develop scalable solutions for managing AWS accounts, ensuring high availability and performance. You'll tackle challenges in building fault-tolerant systems and contribute to exciting projects that enhance customer experiences at events. If you're eager to work on distributed cloud-scale systems and thrive in a collaborative environment, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a team that values diversity and work-life balance while pushing the boundaries of technology in the cloud.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Health insurance

Career development opportunities

Employee discounts

Work-life balance initiatives

Qualifications

• 3+ years in software development with a focus on AWS services.
• Experience in building complex software systems for customers.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement fault-tolerant systems at scale using AWS.
• Develop and maintain account management operations for AWS.

Skills

Software Development Life Cycle

AWS Services

Programming Languages

System Architecture

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Equivalent Degree

Tools

AWS Lambda

DynamoDB

API Gateway

CloudFront

SQS

SNS

AppSync

KMS

Job description

Software Development Engineer, Event Outfitters Engineering

Job ID: 2971626 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Passionate about building a service that changes the way customers learn and get hands on with AWS services? Come join our developer team building an AWS services in a scalable and secure way for hands-on workshops including Immersion Days and Game Days. This service will help deliver customer workshops at private and public events globally at AWS, as well as for customers and partners to use directly.

In this role, you will build and develop solutions for managing one of the largest fleets of AWS Accounts in existence in scalable and secure way, supporting the broader AWS Field in enabling both internal and external customers. This role will give you the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to solve problems at scale and how to effectively own a critical service that is a dependency for other teams.

Our team owns services that thousands of AWS Solutions Architects (SAs) use to work efficiently and securely with hundreds of thousands of customers. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to develop and maintain account management operations. We are looking for software engineers who are both passionate and skilled at working on distributed cloud-scale systems. 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.

Our ideal candidate will demonstrate a passion for working on behalf of customers, have a track record of on-time delivery of large scale projects, and have the ability to operate independently and autonomously.


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 using AWS services including, but not limited to: Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudFront, SQS, SNS, AppSync, KMS etc..
- Own defining, disambiguating, designing, and implementing multi-tier distributed software systems and applications. Dive into complex architectures, research and identify new technology that can help optimize performance.
- Design and implement systems that will help our service achieve 5x the current scale within a year. Design and implement software that will help minimize outages and improve the availability of our service
- Estimate effort, plan implementation, and launch systems that meet requirements for functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, and adherence to development goals and principles.
- Experiment, innovate and deliver fast, agile, and reliable with high quality and low technical debt.
- You should be passionate about building, improving and championing the product and a strong sense of ownership is a must.

About the team
Our team owns builds tools/services that allow the AWS field to securely, and efficiently deliver technical content and hands on events to customers. We work with AWS Event Marketing to support all large events such as re:Invent, re:Inforce, and Summits, as well as other internal teams to help support other technical content creation aspects. Our team is mostly centered in Texas, however we have folks in other locations and from a number of backgrounds / experience. We're always looking for more folks to help us improve and continue delivering an awesome experience for both internal and external customers!

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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- 3+ years of contributing to new and current systems architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- 3+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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