Software Development Engineer, Customer Experience and Business Trends

About the role

Amazon's Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) organization is seeking a Software Development Engineer (SDE) to shape the future of Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer experience by improving service performance. Do you want to help improve the customer experience and performance of AWS core infrastructure, including Storage and Networking? We're seeking a performance-obsessed SDE to enable Amazon Benchmarking to deliver industry-leading performance insights and improvements across our entire service portfolio.

This role is tasked with enhancing a complex multi-cloud framework to orchestrate, run, and analyze performance benchmarking workloads. This infrastructure is used to measure AWS service performance, conducting comprehensive analyses that drive critical business decisions at the CEO/SVP level and help guide teams in delivering the best cloud services in the industry. The primary deliverables are the infrastructure and automation required to accelerate, simplify, and make efficient deep-dive performance investigations that identify recommendations to influence product direction across multiple AWS services.

This role requires exceptional software development skills and a passion for distributed system performance and statistics. The candidate will excel at simplifying complex systems for use across multiple stakeholders with diverse backgrounds. The ideal candidate has knowledge of containers, AWS services, and building Python libraries. This role will build tools to investigate performance bottlenecks while maintaining the highest standards of technical rigor and objectivity.

Key job responsibilities

• Design and build infrastructure and automation to execute performance benchmarks across AWS services
• Own benchmark lifecycle from scoping, to execution, to delivery of findings and recommendations to AWS leadership
• Work with stakeholders across service teams to define customer-critical performance metrics
• Analyze results and create recommendations that directly impact AWS service improvements
• Collaborate with multiple teams to continuously raise the bar on AWS service performance

A day in the life

• You will be working with a unique team that works across multiple core AWS services.
• You will build automation and performance benchmarks to study, explore, and improve the performance of AWS services.
• Your great detective skills will be exercised on a daily basis to dive deep into details of the performance of complex services.

• You should be comfortable collaborating in a fast-paced and uncertain environment, and contributing to innovative solutions, while demonstrating leadership.
• You should also be comfortable collaborating regularly and making recommendations with multiple levels of the team from development engineers to service team leadership.
• You achieve this by regularly working with multiple PEs and PMs across different AWS services.

You are a true owner and will operate at all levels, diving deep into the details while providing strategic inputs for the product. On a monthly basis team member studies are presented to the highest levels of AWS leadership.

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
• Strong system design fundamentals and experience with performance tools
• Expertise in performance debugging and optimization
• Bar raising writing skills
• Track record of driving technical decisions through data-driven analysis

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually