Software Development Engineer, AWS EC2 Live Migration

Job Description

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a fast-growing business that provides cost-effective, easy-to-use cloud computing resources to businesses of all sizes around the world. At the Amazon Development Center in Dresden, Germany, we develop and operate Live Migration, which enables seamless migration of EC2 instances between physical hosts, helping our customers maintain their applications' availability and resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, Implement, and Test: You will design, implement, and test new features and enhancements to our Live Migration control plane service in EC2.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to define requirements, priorities, and timelines for feature development and bug fixes.
• Issue Resolution: Diagnose and resolve issues that arise in our production environment, ensuring that our service is always available and performing optimally.
• Code Reviews: Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other engineers to ensure that our codebase is maintainable, scalable, and efficient.
• Continuous Improvement: Continuously improve our control plane service by identifying opportunities for automation, optimization, and performance tuning.

A Day in the Life

At Amazon, we highly value Ownership. As a Software Development Engineer, you will take responsibility for designing, implementing, and delivering projects in a timely manner. Given our strategic position, execution requires daily collaboration with peers at various sites around the world. Being a team player is a must! We care about your career growth. We will find and assign you projects that fit your experience and help you grow your career.

We do not split development and operations. As part of this role, you will be part of an on-call rotation. We relentlessly work to deliver the best quality software to avoid getting paged during our off hours, and expect you to do the same.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience in software development, with a focus on distributed systems at scale, networking, or infrastructure software.
• Experience operating and supporting production cloud services, including on-call responsibilities.
• Strong programming skills in at least one high-level programming language such as Java, Kotlin, C++, or others.
• Familiarity with Linux operating systems and command-line tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Proficient in at least one scripting language such as Python, Ruby, or similar.

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 empower 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.