Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS Vetting

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to build massively scalable systems that are used by the world's largest cloud infrastructures?
Would you enjoy broad yet equally deep scope that impacts all AWS systems globally?
AWS Vetting continues to pioneer and our team is architecting, building, and operating scalable services that are at the core of AWS infrastructure.

What do we do?
We build platforms and tools that ensure the health of AWS hardware by testing every new and rebuilt system across all AWS data centers. Our platform enables service owners such as EC2, EBS, S3, KMS, and other to deliver healthy servers for their service to the production. Our team leads a large-scale service that sets the bar for Amazon and the industry in platform level services, effectively enabling the hardware at scale by designing and developing the software that manages the verification and testing of every server in AWS.
Why it’s high-impact?
We set the bar high to ensure that AWS customers get the capacity they need to run their applications on a healthy hardware server within an SLA
What’s the challenge?
There are many ambiguous and difficult challenges in our fast-moving space. Our platform is mission critical and requires deep system and software expertise. You need to have the ability to work within a fast moving and startup-like environment in a large company. You will identify solutions, trying ideas, given space to fail and iterate to produce products that your customers love.
What you will do?
You will be a part of a team to build the next generation of level software and systems that enables us to deliver healthy hardware to AWS customers. You design and deliver technology solutions which solve difficult business problems.

Who would succeed in this role?
Deeply technical engineers, who stay close to the customer as well as the systems architecture and design. They think about customer experience and the outcome. A person who works autonomously and dives deep in to a problem to deeply understand how things work, when to make subtle change, and when to disrupt the status quo to achieve the right results.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead design, implementation, and delivery of software that solves complex problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices.
- Focus on a major portion of existing or new team software, including large or significant component, set of features, mid-size application or service.
- Work with your team to invent, design and build software that is stable and performant. You write code that an SDE unfamiliar with the system can understand.
- Work on project ideas with customers, stakeholders, peers and helping balance customer requirements with team requirements.
- Influence your team’s technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach.
- Take the lead in identifying and solving architecture deficiencies or areas where your team’s software bottlenecks the innovation of other teams. You help your team deliver higher quality software faster (or fail faster to get to the right solution).
- You lead design reviews for your team and actively participate in design reviews of related software or other team software at your location.
- You lead by example. Your code, design, and implementation decisions set a great example to others and demonstrate best practices. You provide insightful code reviews and take ownership of outcome.
- Influence and positively impact the technical decisions. The influence can be via a collaborative software effort or by driving software best practices (e.g., security, quality, operational excellence, etc.).
- Actively participate in the hiring process as well as mentor others - improving their skills, their knowledge of your software, and their ability to get things done.
- Improve and focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions.
- Work to resolve the root cause of complex problems, leaving software better and easier to maintain than when you found it.
- Actively help evolve the team by actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, team planning, and ticket/metric/COE reviews.

About the team
AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS)
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and net