Sr. Systems Development Engineer, Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS)

Amazon • Seattle, WA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Are you passionate about designing and developing highly available and large-scale services? Would you like to invent and build solutions for customers that truly make a difference in their business? Are you an experienced VMware Systems development engineer and a self-starter who is excited to build something new and work at cloud scale? If the answer is yes, then we have an exciting opportunity for you to work in the Amazon Elastic VMware Service team. A wave of innovation is bringing sweeping changes to EC2 services with new virtualization capabilities, deep platform integrations, and unimaginable scale revolutionizing traditional thinking around how we run enterprise workloads in the cloud. We are looking for a Systems Development Engineer to build new capabilities to help customers run VMware-based workloads on AWS. The AWS Commercial Applications team within Amazon EC2 defines and builds integrations with external software applications running in cloud environments and helps to modernize enterprise customer workloads. Our team just announced Amazon EVS and is expanding and continuing to build new capabilities for our customers migrating and running VMware-based workloads on AWS.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or Bachelor of Arts degree
• 6+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience with PowerShell (preferred), Python, Ruby, or Java
• Hands on deep technical experience with VMware technologies, including, ESXi, vSAN, NSX and VCF
• Clear, professional, verbal and written communication with teammates and customers is an important part of the job.
• Commitment to teamwork, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements.
• Exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems.
• Customer-centric approach and a proven track record of building exceptionally high quality software that delights customers.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with distributed systems at scale
• Strong understanding of networking concepts, protocols, and technologies, including software-defined networking, BGP, BFD, and IP routing.
• Deep knowledge of the OSI model, with a focus on Layer 2 (Data Link) and Layer 3 (Network) protocols and their interactions.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside other builders, principal engineers, and business leaders to create new capabilities that provide enhanced experience for our customers running VMware workloads.
• Actively participate in product definition, technical architecture reviews, iterative development, code review, and operations.
• Interact with customers to understand and ensure their needs are met.
• Lead performance testing and/or benchmarking of AWS infrastructure for VMware workloads and driving continuous improvements.
• Design and implement software-defined networking solutions, such as virtual switches and overlay networks, to enable flexible and programmable network infrastructure.
• Invent the foundation for the next phase of the products and beyond.

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: Senior