Software Development Engineer, AWS Cloudformation

Do you want to impact millions of customers? Do you want to work on open source projects? Do you feel passionate about working with highly scalable and available systems? Do you get excited at the idea of designing and delivering next generation cloud infrastructure? Your quest is finally over!

AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC) helps customers to easily and efficiently adopt AWS services while ensuring that their applications run safely in the cloud. We develop services and client software, including CloudFormation, Cloud Control API, and the Cloud Development Kit (CDK), that empower customers to spin up infrastructure across AWS at unprecedented scale.

The Provider Experience team provides the building blocks for customers to scale and grow their use of AWS services and third-party solutions. With the CloudFormation CLI and Resource Provider Development Kit (RPDK), we enable AWS service teams and third-party developers to build a standardized resource-based interface to their services and provide access to customers via the CloudFormation Registry.

We are looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate is excited about the incredible opportunity that cloud computing represents, thrives when presented with complex new challenges, and can serve as a strong mentor for other engineers as the team grows.

Key job responsibilities:

1. Own everything from end to end: requirements gathering, designs, design reviews, implementations, code reviews, incremental feature launches, operations, mentoring, and driving continuous improvement.
2. Solve difficult problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices.
3. Work with your team to invent, design and build software that is stable and performant.
4. Be proficient in a broad range of design approaches and know when to use them appropriately.
5. Consider the legacy of the code you produce and write code that an SDE unfamiliar with the system can understand.
6. Limit the use of short-term workarounds and do things with the proper level of complexity the first time.
7. Create flexible software without over-engineering, making appropriate trade-offs and being judicious about introducing dependencies.
8. Be efficient with resource usage (e.g., system hardware, database, memory/CPU, etc.)

The CloudFormation team values work-life balance with core in-office hours from 10am to 5pm. We have an on-call rotation every 5-6 weeks and work together to reduce our on-call load by ensuring our systems are fault tolerant.

Join us to shape the future of cloud infrastructure and make a significant impact on millions of customers!