Platform Engineer - ECS API & IaC DevTools

Socket.dev; New Jersey; On-site; USD 158,000 - 214,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon’s ECS Developer Platforms team seeks engineers to design and build customer-facing API endpoints and IaC resource providers, ensuring full developer surface coverage on launch. You’ll collaborate across ECS pillars and AWS IaC teams, own tooling, and contribute to reliable deployments for thousands of AWS customers.

You will review code, mentor engineers, and author design documents, while investigating operational issues to improve API and IaC fleet performance.

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
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Responsibilities

• Design and build customer-facing API endpoints and IaC resource providers (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform) so that every new ECS capability ships with full developer surface coverage on launch day.
• Collaborate with ECS backend pillar teams (Scheduling, Networking, Deployments) and AWS-wide IaC teams to co-design API contracts, resource models, and release plans for new features.
• Own internal platform tooling - feature flag systems, automated testing pipelines, and deployment safety mechanisms - that the entire ECS engineering organization depends on to ship quickly and reliably.
• Participate in code reviews, mentor fellow engineers, and author API and IaC design documents that define the developer experience for hundreds of thousands of AWS customers.
• Investigate operational issues through oncall rotations and root cause analysis, driving permanent fixes that improve the reliability and performance of the API and IaC fleet.

Skills

Software development

Design/architecture

OOP design

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Foreign equivalent accepted

Tools

CloudFormation

CDK

Terraform

Job description

Amazon’s ECS Developer Platforms team seeks engineers to design and build customer-facing API endpoints and IaC resource providers, ensuring full developer surface coverage on launch. You’ll collaborate across ECS pillars and AWS IaC teams, own tooling, and contribute to reliable deployments for thousands of AWS customers.

You will review code, mentor engineers, and author design documents, while investigating operational issues to improve API and IaC fleet performance.