Software Development Engineer, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

Amazon • Boston, MA

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About The Position

We are looking for passionate software developers to join our team and help to
solve a challenging set of problems in a space packed full of opportunities. In
this role, you will participate in the full life cycle of AWS services including
requirements definition, software design, implementation and ownership of the
product.

The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic with working on mission critical
applications that operate at scale. They will also be passionate about
technology and working with the best software developers in the world to
innovate and provide our customers an unparalleled experience.

Key job responsibilities
As a key member of the engineering team, you will have significant influence on
our product strategy. Your role will involve helping define product features,
refining system architecture, and spearheading best practices that enable a
quality product. You'll be instrumental in designing and implementing solutions
that meet high availability, performance, and security requirements while
setting the foundation for the next phase of our product and beyond. Your
commitment to teamwork and strong communication skills will be crucial as you
interact with both business and technical partners.

Creating a reliable, scalable, and high-performance service requires exceptional
technical expertise, a sound understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, and
practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. We're looking for
someone who enjoys working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and
feels strongly about building good software as well as making that software
achieve its operational goals. You should also maintain a forward-looking
attitude, staying aware of the latest technology trends.

In this role, you'll actively participate in product definition, technical
architecture review, iterative development, and code review. You'll develop
automation testing to verify functionality as part of our CI/CD pipeline and
provide technical leadership in the design and implementation of scalable and
robust solutions. Operational excellence is key, so you'll also participate in
on-call rotations and incident response.

We value continuous improvement and technical excellence. As such, you'll have
the opportunity to mentor team members on technologies and best practices. Your
verbal and written communication skills will be essential as you collaborate
with the team and stakeholders.

A day in the life
Implement software features and updates to the DRS stack.
Consult and collaborate with a team of talented engineers to resolve technical
issues.
Guide and mentor junior engineers.
Participate in support rotations to ensure DRS delights our customers.

About the team
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is a disaster recovery service provided by
AWS that enables organizations to minimize downtime and data loss with fast,
reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications. DRS uses
cost-effective AWS resources to maintain an up-to-date copy of source servers on
AWS, allowing for point-in-time recovery and failback to the primary site after
an issue is resolved.

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
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• 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
• Knowledge of computer architecture, operating systems, and parallel computing

Responsibilities

• Implement software features and updates to the DRS stack.
• Consult and collaborate with a team of talented engineers to resolve technical issues.
• Guide and mentor junior engineers.
• Participate in support rotations to ensure DRS delights our customers.
• Helping define product features
• Refining system architecture
• Spearheading best practices that enable a quality product.
• Designing and implementing solutions that meet high availability, performance, and security requirements
• Participate in product definition, technical architecture review, iterative development, and code review.
• Develop automation testing to verify functionality as part of our CI/CD pipeline
• Provide technical leadership in the design and implementation of scalable and robust solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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