Senior Software Dev Engineer, AWS Foundational Data Services

AWS Foundational Data Services team in Santa Clara is looking for a Senior Software Dev Engineer to help define and build the future of Migrations and Licensing services. We deliver high-performance services that help migrate, manage and optimize cost of running workloads on AWS. We are at a tipping point of evolving our services to pre-empt and auto-detect migration issues, make VM migrations configurable and provide insights and intelligence in our Licensing products.

As a Senior SDE, you'll work alongside outstanding engineers, PEs and leaders, building next generation commercial services that enhance our customer's overall experience. You'll design ambiguous features and refactoring projects, be a prolific code reviewer, lead best practices for your team, collaborate with PMT, partners and peers to deliver results. You'll be a team player, mentor teammates, insist on high standards, and hire and develop the best.

Key responsibilities:

• Own and drive technical roadmap for the team
• Work closely with customers to understand and address their needs
• Build massive-scale distributed software systems
• Develop software at every level of the stack from front-end user interfaces to highly distributed services

Our team values work-life balance and provides a supportive environment for knowledge sharing and mentorship. We offer one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, design/code reviews. We care about your career growth and long-term success as a member of our team.

Required qualifications:

• 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 7+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• 5+ years of experience working with virtualization environments (VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of Windows, Linux, and other enterprise operating systems

Preferred qualifications:

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon offers a competitive compensation package, including equity, sign-on payments, and a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year to $261,500/year, depending on the geographic market and other factors.