Software Development Engineer, AWS Insights and Optimizations

Amazon • New York, NY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to join the Hex team within AWS Insights and Optimizations. This team owns the execution plane and data plane for AWS Billing and cost management — the services that power Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection, Pricing Calculator, Alerts, Forecasting, and Heimdall across all AWS partitions globally. You will work on high-scale, high-availability distributed systems that process cost data for millions of AWS accounts. The services you own directly impact how customers monitor, control, and optimize their AWS spending. You will also have the opportunity to apply GenAI tooling to reduce operational toil, improve pipeline health, and build automation that scales the team's impact.

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
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 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
• Experience with AI/ML technologies
• Familiarity with cost management, billing, or FinOps domains

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate distributed services that power AWS cost management across all 8 AWS partitions
• Own and improve the operational health of high-volume services — pipeline deployments, ticket resolution, on-call response, and automated testing
• Drive engineering efficiency through automation — automated ticket triage, pipeline remediation, test generation, and deployment validation
• Contribute to our S-Team commitments for Cost Monitoring and Estimation Products
• Collaborate with science teams on ML-powered cost forecasting and anomaly detection models
• Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable systems.
• Collaborate with Applied Scientists to productionize research innovations while ensuring system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Demonstrate strong ownership of complex technical problems spanning multiple services and teams.
• Continuously learn new Gen AI/ML technologies and engineering best practices while demonstrating Amazon's Leadership Principles, particularly Ownership and Deliver Results, in daily work.

Benefits

• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

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