Amazon

Software Development Engineer III, EC2 Core Provisioning

Amazon$168K — $227K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software development experience
  • Proficient in at least one programming language
  • Experience in leading design or architecture for systems
  • Demonstrated mentorship or leadership in engineering teams
  • Experience with full software development life cycle processes

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture of high-scale distributed systems for EC2
  • Lead design and delivery of dwell-reduction initiatives
  • Author design documents and influence technical decisions
  • Drive down operational load and improve observability
  • Mentor junior engineers through design and code reviews
  • Translate ambiguous business problems into technical strategy

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision
  • 401(k) matching program
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Support for adoption and surrogacy reimbursement
  • Flexible spending accounts and mental health support
Full Job Description
EC2 is the foundation of AWS, and our team sits at the heart of it: we own the systems that take raw server hardware and turn it into sellable EC2 capacity. Every host in the EC2 fleet - across every region, from Graviton to GPU platforms - flows through our provisioning, vetting, and repair workflows before customers can launch instances on it.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to drive the next generation of our fleet ingestion and dwell-reduction charter. You will own the architecture of the services, workflows, and analytics that shrink that dwell: large-scale orchestration systems, event-driven reconciliation services, and the data pipelines and dashboards that give engineers and leadership real-time visibility into fleet health.

As a senior engineer, you will operate with significant autonomy and ambiguity. You will decompose multi-quarter problems into deliverable milestones, influence roadmaps across partner teams (hardware engineering, datacenter operations, capacity planning), raise the operational and engineering bar for the team, and mentor engineers at all levels. You will be a force multiplier: the designs you write, the standards you set, and the engineers you grow will matter as much as the code you ship.

Key job responsibilities

- Own the end-to-end architecture of high-scale distributed systems that provision, vet, and recover EC2 hosts across all AWS regions

- Lead the design and delivery of the team's dwell-reduction initiatives, from data ingestion and analytics through automated remediation workflows

- Author design documents and drive technical decisions that span multiple teams and services; influence partner-team roadmaps

- Raise the bar on operational excellence: drive down operational load, improve observability, and lead root-cause analysis for complex fleet-level issues

- Mentor and grow SDE Is and IIs through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on guidance

- Work directly with product, hardware, and datacenter stakeholders to translate ambiguous business problems into technical strategy

A day in the life

You might start the morning reviewing a design for a new reconciliation workflow, spend midday deep in a fleet-wide dwell regression - correlating provisioning telemetry across regions to find the systemic cause - and end the day pairing with a junior engineer on a replay-safe workflow change. You'll balance long-term architecture with the operational reality of running Tier-1 services that the entire EC2 fleet depends on.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ 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

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. 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. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

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