Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Are you a software developer who wants to innovate on world’s largest dynamically priced market for computing? Come join the EC2 Pricing & Launch Services team!

The team: Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) enables customers of all sizes to run their applications on our industry leading cloud infrastructure. EC2 Pricing & Launch Services is a team under the EC2 umbrella that helps customers access compute resources at the best possible price based on a commitment to use the service for a specific term.

EC2 Pricing & Launch Services builds & manages the software that enables customers to cost optimize by browsing and committing to use for a term at a lower price than on-demand. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. This team is growing rapidly so we can significantly expand our feature set and increase scale.


You: We’re seeking software developers who are passionate about working on distributed systems architecture, solving synchronization & performance optimization problems. You should be passionate about building cool features for our customers, help innovate around our pricing systems, value operational excellence, and help us grow our market segment share. You should have a good understanding of data consistency and transactions between distributed services. Experience with web-services, especially at large scale, will be helpful, and it won’t hurt if you enjoy relaxing and having lunch out with the team once in a while.

Key job responsibilities
- Design, build and optimize the software to run an exchange for computing resources including pricing models and distribution of risk
- Design, build and optimize the customer facing features that make it easy for customers around the world to select products and use EC2 features in the most cost-effective way
- Define intuitive web-service APIs and use AWS’s native technologies to develop new customer features rapidly
- Empower developers from around the world to build their applications on EC2 compute power (e.g. reduce friction, simplify APIs, add tooling, improve the service architecture)
- Automatically deploy and monitor your service to identify performance issues before our customers do
- Recruit, interview and hire software developers that raise the bar in all areas
- Mentor junior software developers and grow your skills & career

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Job Tags

Full time, Internship,

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