Amazon Dev Center U.S., Inc. Looking For System Development Engineer II – Apollo, Apollo at Arlington, VA Full Time

Programming experience with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby

2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

Experience in automation via scripting and configuration management tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt)

Demonstrated UNIX (preferably Linux) systems engineering skills

Understanding and demonstrated experience working with core internet technologies (e.g. TCP/IP)

Job summary

Ever wondered how AWS (think of S3, EC2, DynamoDB, and more), the Amazon retail web site, Alexa, Prime Video, and hundreds of other services are available 24 hours a day, across the world, yet are continually evolving?

The answer is, Apollo!

The Apollo team (part of the AWS Builder Tools organization) owns the software and systems that helps Amazon’s massive developer community build the cutting edge services and technology that Amazon is known for. Our systems deliver the technology that powers fully-automated continuous deployment workflows and dynamic scaling for some of the world’s largest services. We execute millions of deployments to millions of hosts, every day.

Apollo make it possible for every developer at Amazon to rapidly change their running applications without ever having to take an outage. Every engineer uses it every day. In Apollo, everything we do goes into production and is instantly used by tens of thousands of other engineers.

What we do makes a difference, and we’re not done yet! We are looking for software developers who are passionate about areas like DevOps, SRE, and Infrastructure-as-Code to help us manage Amazon’s massive growth, in every dimension.

A System Development Engineer in Apollo will:
Develop infrastructure-as-code software to stand-up large distributed services

Design fault tolerance and disaster recovery solutions

Identify and remove scaling bottlenecks in large-scale distributed systems

Develop and maintain AWS region awareness features

Work with other engineers to build and manage massively scaled services

Work with other engineers to diagnose and resolve customer issues

Understand and implement security and operational best-practices

About Us

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Inclusion

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-live balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Learn more about Amazon on our Day 1 Blog: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/”

AWS has the most services and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. Whether its Identity features such as access management and sign on, cryptography, console, builder & developer tools, and even projects like automating all of our contractual billing systems, AWS Platform is always innovating with the customer in mind. The AWS Platform team sustains over 750 million transactions per second.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

3+ years of hands on work experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, and/or Systems Development

Systems Engineering/SRE experience in a large, distributed environment focusing on automation

Experience with DevOps tools, processes, and culture

Technically sound in software development and life cycle

Experience using AWS services

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.