Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS Commerce Platform

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Arlington, VA, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the AWS Commerce Platform to tackle hard distributed-systems challenges at massive scale.

You will mentor peers, shape the engineering roadmap, and own design, development, tests, deployment, and operation of secure systems handling confidential billing data. Join a team that values mentorship, innovation, and customer-focused delivery, with scalable solutions and strong lifecycle practices within a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Work on the hardest engineering problems in distributed systems at a massive scale and on multiple dimensions.
• You will exercise your intellectual curiosity, work with motivated teams of sharp individuals, partner with other senior and principal engineers, and provide guidance in defining your team’s engineering roadmap.
• Own design, development, test, deployment and operation of highly available, secure systems that handle confidential billing data at scale.
• Regularly dive into architecture, code, test plans, project plans, deployments and operations to drive excellence throughout our organization.
• Contribute directly to our growth by hiring smart and motivated engineers that can deliver swiftly and predictably, adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver what our customers need.

Skills

Distributed systems

Software development

Leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Git

Job description

Description
AWS Commerce Platform provides the infrastructure and services that help AWS customers understand and manage their infrastructure costs, as well as enable AWS teams to sell their services.

Description
AWS Commerce Platform provides the infrastructure and services that help AWS customers understand and manage their infrastructure costs, as well as enable AWS teams to sell their services.
Our team in AWS Billing (part of AWS Commerce Platform) owns driving and tracking the execution of the billing pipeline. We streamline the operations of billing pipeline by identifying points of manual interventions and providing scalable automated alternatives. We bring visibility into BillRun progress and issues through up-to-date reporting and metrics.
We decompose the AWS billing pipeline to accomplish a zero touch billing experience that scalable and exceeds the expectations of our AWS customers.
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Key job responsibilities
As a senior software engineer in AWS Commerce Platform, you will:

• Work on the hardest engineering problems in distributed systems at a massive scale and on multiple dimensions.
• You will exercise your intellectual curiosity, work with motivated teams of sharp individuals, partner with other senior and principal engineers, and provide guidance in defining your team’s engineering roadmap.
• Own design, development, test, deployment and operation of highly available, secure systems that handle confidential billing data at scale.
• Regularly dive into architecture, code, test plans, project plans, deployments and operations to drive excellence throughout our organization.
• Contribute directly to our growth by hiring smart and motivated engineers that can deliver swiftly and predictably, adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver what our customers need.
  

About The Team
Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ 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
  

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USA, VA, Arlington - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
Company - Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Job ID: A10401991