Sr. Software Development Engineer, Dependency Assurance

Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. To meet the growing demand for AWS Services around the globe, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people to enable our Region expansion. The Dependency Assurance team is looking for an experienced engineer to build solutions and tooling to help AWS Builders expand their services to Regions throughout the world. Our team's technical scope includes the full software stack from graph databases to message brokers to APIs to user frontends.

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.

Your work will have a direct impact on how tens of thousands of AWS Builders develop and deploy their services for Region expansion. Your work will have visibility to leadership across the AWS organization and provide huge opportunity to learn new things while solving complex engineering problems, delivering results that make impact on revenue and resources, and growing professionally and personally.

Developers at AWS work on real world problems on a global scale, own their systems end-to-end, and influence the direction of our technology that impacts hundreds of millions customers around the world. Join a team of super smart, customer obsessed engineers that think big and have fun.

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Key job responsibilities

- You solve difficult problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices.

- You work with your team to invent, design and build software that is stable and performant.

- You are proficient in a broad range of design approaches and know when it is appropriate to use them (and when it is not). Your solutions are pragmatic.

- You consider the legacy of the code you produce and write code that an SDE unfamiliar with the system can understand.

- You limit the use of short-term workarounds. You do things with the proper level of complexity the first time (or at least minimize incidental complexity).

- You create flexible software without over-engineering. You make appropriate trade-offs, re-use where possible, and are judicious about introducing dependencies.

- You are efficient with resource usage (e.g., system hardware, database, memory/CPU, etc.)

- You work on project ideas with customers, stakeholders, and peers

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

- 8+ 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

- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

- Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project

- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs

- Experiencing mentoring junior software development engineers and driving engineering excellence

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