Job Description

Job summary

Are you a Software Engineer who has the vision of making every “thing” in the world as intelligent as it can possibly be? Do you want to design and build back-end software that makes this happen on a global scale? Come join the AWS Internet of Things (IoT Core) team!

The Team

Amazon’s Internet of Things platform (AWS IoT) enables customers to easily and securely connect devices to the AWS cloud using industry standard protocols in a fully managed environment.
From simple sensors and actuators that barely have enough memory to run an OS to full-blown industrial gateways – they rely and benefit from AWS IoT’s connectivity, security, and ability to integrate with the rest of AWS. IoT Core is the heart of IoT , which manages the connection with devices , process and route those messages to AWS endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely.

If building highly distributed systems, with insane scalability requirements and difficult synchronization problems interest you, we have the right challenge for you!. AWS IoT Core is a place you can develop your career while making a direct impact for customers at scale. You will enjoy a very competitive salary, great benefits, a work environment with an innovation engineers, and exciting opportunities to make history, have great fun and be part of the fastest-growing technology company on earth.

This role is in the AWS IoT Core – Message Broker team. We are building software that provides a highly scalable and low latency software to enable the millions of IoT Devices to sending messages to other devices and to other cloud services. Broker software manages topics, subscriptions and routes the message between devices at a very high throughput.

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 we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) 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.
We’re looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers; someone who will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture we’ve been building.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We’re committed to the growth and development of every member of IoT. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the culture and direction of the entire IoT org and deliver site-wide initiatives that will improve the life of all of our teams.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life balance. We generally keep core work hours from 9am to 5pm. We are builder-operators of our services at AWS and have a on-call rotation where you’ll participate approximately once every 2 months. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice. This is incredibly important to us because a stable operational load is indicative of high service reliability for our customers.

You

We are looking for people that are self-driven, able to deal with ambiguity, passionate about innovating, working on challenging highly scalable distributed systems problems, and motivated to learn about a broad set of technologies. Being a team player is a must. You will be working daily with your team members to lead the feature releases, advising on operational improvements and other day-to-day development activities. You'll have opportunities to make those around you better, participate in designing new software, do code reviews, and most importantly ship code.

The pay range for this position in Colorado is $143,650 - $194,349 yr.; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. This information is provided per the Colorado Equal Pay Act. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via Amazon's internal or external careers site.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
Programming experience with at least one software programming language.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience building highly scalable distributed systems
Experience with the Linux operating system environment and Infrastructure automation and optimization
Ability to optimize code for memory and CPU utilization