Director software engineering Jobs in Burnaby, BC

Think big. The Automated Augmentation team delivers infrastructure software that enables automated instrumentation and augmentation for all services that make up Amazon. We reduce the effort it takes for teams to implement and distribute software that addresses cross-cutting concerns, by creating framework abstractions and bundling best practices. Our software makes it easier to disseminate information throughout the Amazon service graph, while eliminating duplicated builder effort and code.

As a software development engineer on the Automated Augmentation team, you will design and build solutions to accelerate company-wide initiatives in the region expansion, observability, security, availability, and efficiency spaces. Your contributions will impact tens of thousands of services and benefit hundreds of teams at Amazon, helping to automate repetitive tasks, improve fleet efficiency, and improve developer experience. You will solve complex yet fun challenges by looking at the big picture while diving into the details. You will be supported by a large and experienced Principal Engineering community and work with many cross-cutting teams and technologies. Come help us create and evolve the abstractions that make developing software at Amazon even more capable, efficient, and flexible!

Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a highly motivated engineer who understands service-oriented architecture, and will help us help the business innovate quickly at scale. You will be responsible for scoping and delivering projects end-to-end, defining metrics that matter, and anticipating customer and business needs. You will deliver results personally and by leading your peers, as well as collaborating with stakeholders and our community of customers. Your strong communication skills will be showcased as you share your architectural visions and technical solutions with others. Your proven track record of designing and building distributed software solutions through an agile methodology enables you to get a fast start. Your ability to dive deep into a wide variety of problems and technologies will guide the right technical decisions for the Amazon products you support.

About the team
The Automated Augmentation team is part of the Region Flexibility and Efficiency organization, which supports the rapid global expansion of Amazon's infrastructure. Our projects support all Amazon businesses like Stores, Alexa, Kindle, Prime Video. We drive adoption of ever-evolving and modern AWS and non-AWS technologies, and work closely with AWS teams to improve AWS public offerings. Our organization focuses on robust and scalable solutions, simple to use, and delivered with engineering best practices. We leverage and build foundational infrastructure capabilities, tools, and datasets that enable Amazon teams to delight our customers. With millions of people using Amazon's products every day, we appreciate the importance of making our solutions "just work".

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

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