Software Development Engineer II, Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)

Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

Are you interested in building high-performance, scalable services for the Data Platform that support Amazon's current and future growth? Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation by leveraging the scalability and innovative capabilities of Amazon's AWS cloud services?

Does the opportunity to work on the latest technology architectures like HTAP systems, Data-Mesh architecture, and Data-Containerization excite you? Do you have a passion for ensuring a positive customer experience? If so, this is the job for you

The ideal candidate will be motivated, have strong attention to detail, and will model Amazon Leadership Principles. A familiarity with Amazon Web Service technologies including API Gateway, Lambda, MWAA, EC2, ECS, S3, SQS, SNS, CloudFormation, RDS, DynamoDB, as well as no-SQL solutions which form the foundation of these systems is an asset.

Key job responsibilities
As a member of AWS SMGS DP&I team, you will shape the AWS business's direction as a whole. You will build greenfield solutions from the ground up while using native AWS services and frameworks.
- The right candidate will have a robust system delivery background, well-rounded technical knowledge, and demonstrated experience working on large scale projects.
- The candidate must be customer-obsessed, have strong analytical and communication skills, enjoy working with native AWS services, and thrive on solving challenging business problems.
- The candidate should be comfortable working in an agile environment and collaborating with multiple teams.
- You will design and build scalable platforms that enable AWS to sell new products and services with the necessary speed to market.

A day in the life
ou solve difficult problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices.
You work with your team to invent, design and build software that is stable and performant.
You are proficient in a broad range of design approaches and know when it is appropriate to use them (and when it is not). Your solutions are pragmatic.
You consider the legacy of the code you produce and write code that an SDE unfamiliar with the system can understand.
You limit the use of short-term workarounds. You do things with the proper level of complexity the first time (or at least minimize incidental complexity).
You create flexible software without over-engineering. You make appropriate trade-offs, re-use where possible, and are judicious about introducing dependencies.
You work on project ideas with customers, stakeholders, and peers.

About the team
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