Senior Software Development Engineer - Infrastructure Software and Control

Job Description

The AWS Center for Infrastructure - In Rack Power (CISC - IRP) team is driving rapid innovation in the power systems used by Amazon Web Services. Our designs are fundamentally changing the data center, providing operational and financial benefits that are critical to the success of the AWS business and its millions of customers. We design and build power equipment used by Amazon.com and AWS services such as EC2, EBS, S3, Glacier, and Outpost. Our engineers solve challenging technology problems, and take big bets on new concepts, enabling AWS services to continue to revolutionize the industry.

What You Will Do

As a member of the CISC - IRP team, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying distributed software systems and large-scale solutions for our world-wide installed fleet. You will work closely with hardware, firmware, and systems engineers to automate health reporting of the power systems in production, improving telemetry and monitoring. You will own the end-to-end design of new services and tools in a continuous improvement and technically challenging environment. You will be a software subject matter expert on new product development efforts, defining the architecture of future AWS technologies to deliver a world-class customer experience. This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position, and you will work with thought leaders in multiple technology areas. You will have high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and you will be constantly looking for ways to improve your products' performance, quality, and cost. We are changing an industry, and we want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.

Why It Matters

Amazon has thousands of unique services, both big and small, that power the Retail website (Amazon.com), Amazon Web Services, Echo, Kindle, Amazon Instant Video, and more. These services run on hardware around the world. We continually need to deploy newer, innovative, and more efficient and cost-effective hardware and software solutions. Your work will drive efficiency, contributing to Amazon's Climate Pledge. Your work will drive significant cost savings while improving the performance and reliability of our websites and services. Your work will ensure the highest reliability of power equipment.

Why You Will Love It

You will have exposure to teams and leaders across the entire company. You will be a part of a leading-edge product development team. You will see many aspects of the Amazon business. You will have a direct impact on our bottom line and the ability to improve things for our developers. You will be part of a growing, fast-paced, and fun team. You will have ownership and responsibility for defining and executing processes that deliver both savings and productivity for Amazon.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Analyze new features
• Design new software solutions
• Experience and knowledge with embedded hardware solutions

A Day in the Life

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline
• 5+ years of non-internship professional experience developing software in at least two of: Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, and/or C#
• Computer Science and development fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis
• Experience with the Linux operating system

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Experience building large-scale software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Strong fundamentals in problem-solving, algorithm design, and troubleshooting
• Experience with distributed systems architecture and related technologies
• Knowledge of full life-cycle software engineering practices including coding standards, testing, source control management, and operations
• Experience and/or a strong interest in machine learning software systems and big data software systems

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empowers us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Hybrid Work

We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our Dublin Amazon offices.