Software Development Engineer, EC2 Spot

Utility Computing (UC)
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.

Are you excited to be part of a team in AWS which has growing Year-Over-Year (YOY) business and has direct customer impact? Are you interested to work on business critical and ambiguous distributed system problems? Then you are at the right "spot".

EC2 Spot is a cost-effective compute solution for customers that run fault-tolerant or flexible workloads. Spot customers get up to a 90% discount, on their compute capacity. In exchange, AWS can terminate individual instances with a 2-minute notification. Spot allows AWS to monetize unused, spare compute capacity, shaping demand and leading to increased utilization and profitability. Our customer base range from college students to large tech companies.

EC2 Spot team directly influences customer experience through public AWS APIs and Open source integrations. We manage capacity, allocation strategies and dynamic pricing, which are backed by prediction algorithms. We have challenging goals to increase compute capacity utilization while meeting customers' demand for capacity availability and reduce costs. As an AWS team, we maintain a high bar on service availability, scalability and operating efficiency. Come join us to drive towards our goals of optimally selling unused capacity and to improve customer/developer experience.
You can find more details about Spot Instances here - https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot

About the Team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.
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.
About AWS
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Work/Life Balance
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Key job responsibilities
We are looking for an engineer who has a passion for solving problems. As an EC2 engineer, you will be designing and implementing software solutions for complex engineering problems. Your work will maintain high standards of quality and performance to meet the availability, security and durability that AWS customers expect. You will work closely with business stakeholders to refine product definition and customer experience.
As an EC2 Spot team engineer, you are expected to collaborate with other engineers and AWS teams, plan, execute and deliver on roadmap projects.
You will efficiently operate a high-throughput, large-scale distributed system that supports tens of thousands of AWS customers and drive operational excellence by making operational improvements. You should demonstrate strong teamwork, hustle, and strong communication skills to both business and technical audience.


A day in the life
An SDE will spend their days designing, coding, testing and documenting. Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input. They will attend regular status meetings, design reviews and resolve discordant views within and outside of the team.
During operational shift, engineer in this role will lead operations reviews, respond to degraded customer experience and track down problems and provide appropriate solutions.

About the team
The team is built on mutual respect with a culture of supportive communication. Successful candidates will be team and customer oriented and open minded with a balance of Bias for Action, Deliver Results and Dive Deep. Insisting on the highest standards in conduct and code are integral part of who we are. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment.