Software Development Engineer, AWS Usage Forecast Planning

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

The AWS Usage Forecast Planning team partners with all AWS service teams to
forecast, plan and build the world's largest Cloud infrastructure. Come make
history!

We own software systems for generating a reliable, feasible and explainable
Usage Plans for all the AWS Services. Our goal is to be able to simulate the
usage plans with revenue, cost and efficiency implications in a faster, reliable
and explainable way. Our main objective is to perform usage planning to create
forecast which helps power all the AWS services physical infrastructure needs.
As part of EC2 Core Platform, we aim to strike a nimble balance between capacity
availability and utilization.

We provide usage forecasts for all AWS services and automate the planning of
hardware to support our rapidly growing business. We apply advanced forecasting,
data mining, and machine learning techniques to predict customer demand growth.
We also build supportability models for foundational AWS services and identify
their planning bottlenecks to serve ever-increasing customer demand. Combining
the usage forecast and the supportability models, we generate plan of record
that optimize across customer experience and hardware utilization. Our software
drives the many billions of dollars in CapEx that AWS spends every year, and our
projects help improve AWS utilization to reduce CapEx by 100s of millions of
dollars every year.

On technology front, we use Scala, Java, Python, JavaScript, Lambda, DynamoDB,
as well as other public AWS services and Amazon-internal tools. We are looking
for someone who is passionate about data and problem solving. We don’t expect
you to be an expert in-- or necessarily familiar with-- all of these
technologies, but we expect you to be excited to learn.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to work in a full-stack development role.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice To Haves

• 3+ 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

Responsibilities

• Our team owns a family of products that facilitate the generation, audit and publishing of Demand Plans that support the extensive AWS product portfolio. As a SDE, you will collaborate with research scientists and business subject matter experts to build and maintain a scalable planning platform, along with innovative models, that is capable of handling billions of time series data in real time. Our tools span Scala, Java, Python, JavaScript, Lambda, DynamoDB, and other leading-edge AWS services and tools. We don’t expect you to be an expert in (or be familiar with) all of the technologies listed above, but we want you to be excited to learn about them!
• This position involves on-call responsibilities. We don’t like getting paged outside business hours, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant.

Benefits

• Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
• Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level