Job Information
Amazon Software Development Engineer, AWS Rack Forecasting (ARF) in Seattle, Washington
Description
The ARF team builds software to forecast the amount of hardware needed to keep EC2, EBS and S3 running as the world's favorite elastic cloud. Our work ensures that AWS customers never run out of cloud computing capacity!
We are looking for a Software Engineer to work in a full-stack development role. You will work with AWS technologies and services to build front-end and back-end code. You will work with ML models and large datasets. You will learn the ins and outs of time-series forecasting.
Key job responsibilities
Our team owns a family of products that facilitate the generating, auditing and publishing of time-series forecasts that support the extensive AWS product portfolio. You will collaborate with research scientists and business subject matter experts to build and maintain a forecasting platform that will scale to handle billions of time series data in real time. Our tools span Java, Python, JavaScript, Lambda, DynamoDB, and other leading-edge AWS services and tools. We don’t expect you to be an expert in (or be familiar with) all of the technologies listed above, but we want you to be excited to learn about them!
This position involves on-call responsibilities. We don’t like getting paged outside business hours, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant and reliable.
About the team
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. While we maintain core collaboration hours in the office, we also offer flexibility in accommodating individual working styles. We've built a team culture that encourages collaboration, celebrates teamwork, and prioritizes the drive to "get things done".
We strongly believe in supporting new (and existing) members, and our team's broad mix of experience levels and tenures allow for a great deal of mentoring and learning opportunities. We care about your career growth; we do our best to assign projects to develop our team members into well-rounded professionals who are prepared take on tasks of increasing complexity as their career progresses.
Basic Qualifications
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred Qualifications
3+ 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
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.