Software Dev Engineer II, EC2 Capacity Reservations

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is the centerpiece the Amazon Web Services (AWS) family of cloud computing services. Customers depend on EC2 to provide secure and reliable computing power for business, research, education, or anything else they need to accomplish their goals. Our team is building new and exciting services that help our customers reduce their costs and improve their overall experiences using EC2. We are looking for software engineers who care about the customer and are excited at the thought of providing simple and well-designed solutions to meet our customers’ needs. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust. Work/Life Balance Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives. Mentorship & Career Growth 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 based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future. We are seeking technical leaders to build and a grow a team of engineers. The successful candidate will have technical leadership experience, and track-record to deliver results. You have a software engineering background, with a working knowledge of large-scale systems. You engage with customers to understand their needs, show judgement in establishing priorities, and can successfully manage implementation in an fast changing environment. We work closely together on small teams to solve big problems. Key job responsibilities Write clean, testable, and well-documented code while following software engineering best practices. Identify and resolve ambiguity in technical spaces with high problem complexity. Translate product and technical requirements into scalable solutions. Participate in the full software development lifecycle - design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support. Work closely with teams across EC2 and AWS (Placement, MIST, Paperwork, EC2 Capacity Blocks, EC2 UltraServers, EC2 Console) to build scalable, flexible interfaces enabling fast-paced delivery of customer facing features. Troubleshoot and resolve software defects, participate in code reviews to maintain high code quality across the team. Contribute to on-call rotations and operational excellence. Engage regularly with cross-functional stakeholders (Product Managers, Application Security Engineers) and drive two-way dialogue to identify product requirements and build robust, secure features About the team On-Demand Capacity Reservations enables customers to reserve capacity for your Amazon EC2 instances in a specific Availability Zone for any duration. Our team owns the front-end service layer for EC2 Capacity Reservations — the APIs that enable customers to reserve capacity and manage the full lifecycle of their reservations.