AWS Backup enables customers to centralize and automate protection across AWS
services. It offers a cost-effective, fully managed, policy-based service that
further simplifies protection at scale. AWS Backup also helps our customers to
support their regulatory compliance obligations and meets their business
continuity goals.
We are looking for a passionate Software Engineer to grow this service and help
with adding features and integrations with other AWS services. If you are an
application engineer, and you have the skills to create large scale web
applications, we are looking for you.
This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a fast growing business, and
shape the technology, and product. You should bring technical and software
expertise, the ability to deliver solid code that has a broad business impact
and a software that achieves its operational goals.
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational
services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute
Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to
set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC
organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute,
Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps
services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized
security solutions for their cloud services.
Key job responsibilities
- Deliver technical design and high quality code for new features or
improvements to existing features
- Collaborate with Stakeholders such as product managers, UX designers and other
engineers to deliver high quality software solutions for our customers
- Mentor and lead more junior engineers
- Review peers' technical design and code
- Drive innovative solutions to improve operational health of our team and
product
A day in the life
Working as part of the AWS backup team you will be spending most of your time
building high quality code, writing technical design documents, mentoring more
junior engineers, reviewing your peers' code and technical designs, and ensuring
the operational health of our systems.
This position involves on-call responsibilities typically for one week every 5
to 8 weeks. When you are on call, you will be dedicated to responding to
customer issues and addressing operational problems such as system failures,
availability and latency drops. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the
night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault
tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so
that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.
Throughout all of this you will be surrounded with teammates who will help and
support you and occasionally humble you with their foosball playing skills.
About the team
Our team is intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing
talent from diverse backgrounds. Yes we do get to build a really cool service,
but we also think a big reason for that is the inclusive and welcoming culture
we try to cultivate every day.
We have a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we’re building
an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior
engineers truly enjoy mentoring more junior engineers and engineers from
non-traditional backgrounds through one-on-one mentoring as well as thorough,
but kind, code reviews.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted
cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating —
that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies
trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred
qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates
to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path,
or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the
expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of
our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home,
there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led
affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our
differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our
Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity)
conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s
Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and
other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded
professional.
