Have you ever wondered what it would be like to build massively scalable systems that are used by the world's largest cloud infrastructures? Would you enjoy broad yet equally deep scope that impacts all AWS systems globally? AWS Vetting continues to pioneer and our team is architecting, building, and operating scalable services that are at the core of AWS infrastructure.
What do we do?
We build platforms and tools that ensure the health of AWS hardware by verifying and authenticating every new and rebuilt system across all AWS data centers and manufacturing sites. Our platform enables service owners such as EC2, EBS, S3, and others to deliver healthy servers for their service to the production. Our team leads a large-scale service that sets the bar for Amazon and the industry in platform level services, effectively enabling the hardware at scale by designing and developing the software that manages the verification and testing of every server in AWS.
Why it’s high-impact?
We set the bar high to ensure that AWS customers get the capacity they need to run their applications on a healthy hardware server within an SLA.
What’s the challenge?
There are many ambiguous and difficult challenges in our fast-moving space. Our platform is mission critical and requires deep system and software expertise. You need to have the ability to work within a fast moving and startup-like environment in a large company. You will identify solutions, trying ideas, given space to fail and iterate to produce products that your customers love.
As an SDM, you will have the opportunity to lead a team that builds, invents, evolves, scales, and maintains distributed software systems for AWS Vetting. You lead the long-term strategy and solution to challenging technical and business problems. The right candidate will enjoy finding solutions to hard problems, working with other teams to build scalable solutions, and growing the career of your team of engineers. You should be able to thrive and success in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. You understand mission critical services and obsess over customer experience. This means you are not only able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives, and build mechanisms to keep programs on track, but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in and get the job done. It also includes working closely with product managers and TPM’s to help shape the customer experience.
What will you own?
You will be owning the AWS Vetting's distributed workflow and content management services where customers can publish, regress, and deploy their contents globally across all AWS Data Centers and Manufacturing Sites.
Key job responsibilities
- Define and execute the team's vision for building systems that safely deploy content across AWS Data Centers and Manufacturing sites, ensuring high quality standards and alignment with organizational goals.
- Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team through effective hiring, mentoring, and career development opportunities, creating an environment where engineers collaborate effectively and grow professionally.
- Partner with internal teams and manufacturing partners to establish strategic server and rack pool management systems for regression testing, optimizing resource utilization across the organization.
- Create and implement mechanisms to scale operations, delegating responsibilities while maintaining ownership of delivered software and staying connected to critical technical details.
- Drive architectural decisions and technical direction for systems that enable platform and content owners to author, test, and deploy their content safely across applicable environments.
- Advise and consult with other SDM’s and Senior Engineers on design and architecture.
- Provide technical direction to your the team, and influence technical direction of stakeholder teams.
- Establish and execute short and long-term architectural roadmaps.
- Hire and mentor software/system engineers and actively participate in developing their career.
- Partner with Product Mangers and TPMs to accelerate delivery of solutions to our customers.
- Be responsible for ensuring sanity of architecture, operational excellence and quality, delivering results on time.
A day in the life
Your day begins with a stand-up meeting where you align priorities with your team and address any blocking issues. Throughout the day, you'll collaborate with both customers and your engineering team to advance multiple high-impact initiatives. You'll spend time reviewing architecture proposals, providing technical guidance on implementation approaches, and meeting with manufacturing partners to understand their needs and constraints. You'll balance strategic planning with hands-on problem solving, always keeping an eye on both the immediate deliverables and long-term vision for your systems.
About the team
We are part of the AWS Vetting organization within the EC2 organization. Our team builds critical services and systems that enable platform and content owners like HWEngS and Annapurna to author, test, and deploy their content safely across all applicable environments. We own the full suite of services supporting regression testing, server pool management, check-in/out processes for regression testing, and content deployment across data centers and manufacturing sites. Our work ensures that AWS hardware meets the highest quality standards before deployment, directly impacting the reliability and performance of AWS infrastructure that powers countless customer workloads globally.
You’ll join a diverse team of software, system, and network engineers, security experts, software managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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.
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.
Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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Work/Life Balance
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Basic Qualifications:
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations.
- 4+ years of engineering team management experience.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
- 6+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
- Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services.
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers.
- Experience working directly within engineering teams.
- Experience managing multiple projects and priorities across teams in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations, or experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
- Experience working closely with development and business teams to communicate problem impacts and to understand business requirements.
- Experience handling ambiguous or undefined challenges through strong problem solving abilities.
- Experience in software development, or experience driving collaborative projects from conception to delivery.
- Proven track record of delivery.
- Ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional, cross-organization teams to assemble project plans, secure commitments on deliverables, and lead the resolution of blocking issues.
- Experience creating and building autonomous software teams who can operate independently.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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