Software Dev Engineer II, EC2 Capacity Reservations (AWS)

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer II for EC2 Capacity Reservations in Seattle. You will contribute to scalable services that reserve EC2 capacity and support the full lifecycle of reservations. The role emphasizes mentorship, code quality, and customer-focused design in a fast-moving environment.

You will work with teams across EC2 and AWS, participate in reviews, and help deliver robust, secure features with strong operational excellence and customer impact.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience with large-scale, multi-tiered systems.
• Strong OO design and problem-solving abilities.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages listed.
• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field.

Responsibilities

• Write clean, maintainable code with good tests.
• Design and implement scalable features for EC2 Capacity Reservations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across EC2 and AWS.
• Participate in code reviews and on-call rotations.
• Engage with customers to understand needs and priorities.

Skills

C#

C++

Java

Perl

OO Design

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Git

UML

CI/CD

SQL

Job description

Software Dev Engineer II, EC2 Capacity Reservations

Job ID: 10553910 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is the centerpiece the Amazon Web Services (AWS) family of cloud computing services. Customers depend on EC2 to provide secure and reliable computing power for business, research, education, or anything else they need to accomplish their goals. Our team is building new and exciting services that help our customers reduce their costs and improve their overall experiences using EC2. We are looking for software engineers who care about the customer and are excited at the thought of providing simple and well-designed solutions to meet our customers’ needs.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

We are seeking technical leaders to build and a grow a team of engineers. The successful candidate will have technical leadership experience, and track-record to deliver results. You have a software engineering background, with a working knowledge of large-scale systems. You engage with customers to understand their needs, show judgement in establishing priorities, and can successfully manage implementation in an fast changing environment. We work closely together on small teams to solve big problems.

Key job responsibilities

• Write clean, testable, and well-documented code while following software engineering best practices.
• Identify and resolve ambiguity in technical spaces with high problem complexity. Translate product and technical requirements into scalable solutions.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle - design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support.
• Work closely with teams across EC2 and AWS (Placement, MIST, Paperwork, EC2 Capacity Blocks, EC2 UltraServers, EC2 Console) to build scalable, flexible interfaces enabling fast-paced delivery of customer facing features.
• Troubleshoot and resolve software defects, participate in code reviews to maintain high code quality across the team. Contribute to on-call rotations and operational excellence.
• Engage regularly with cross-functional stakeholders (Product Managers, Application Security Engineers) and drive two-way dialogue to identify product requirements and build robust, secure features

About the team

On-Demand Capacity Reservations enables customers to reserve capacity for your Amazon EC2 instances in a specific Availability Zone for any duration. Our team owns the front-end service layer for EC2 Capacity Reservations — the APIs that enable customers to reserve capacity and manage the full lifecycle of their reservations.

Basic 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 experience
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

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.

Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually