Description
Are you passionate about open source and engaging the developer community for a a growing service poised for the next level of growth? Are you excited about impactful technical projects that help our biggest enterprise customers manage hundreds of accounts with over a million resources across multiple regions? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the pioneer and recognized leader in the Cloud. Our web services provide a platform for IT infrastructure that is used by hundreds of thousands of developers and businesses around the world. These customers range from start-ups to leading web companies to Global 500 companies in financial services, healthcare, and technology.
Key job responsibilities
As an engineer on AWS Config, your job will be to work with an outstanding development team to implement a first-in-class experience for Config developers and contribute to one of the largest cloud resource management and compliance systems in the world. You will work with Product and UX teams and own solutions from design and execution through deployment and support, using the best of available tools. You will be responsible for holding the code quality high, even as we optimize our development processes to better serve our customers.
On-Call Responsibility
This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two 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.
About the team
AWS Config is the foundation service that customers rely on to manage the configuration, and adherence to IT policy, for their cloud resources. Our customers include a large community of developers who create resources like Config rules and Conformance Packs. We are looking for an experienced Engineer who will create an extensive site that will enable developers to create, test, deploy and share their artifacts with the larger AWS Config community.
We have a strong technical team composed of people from different cultures are origins. We like to have fun and innovate.
Work/Life Balance: Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. Our entire team is located in the Virginia Office with Config sister teams in Seattle office. We’re also flexible when people occasionally need to work from home. We generally keep core in-office hours from 10am to 4pm.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
2+ years of non-internship professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS experience
1+ years of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis) experience
Experience using JavaScript frameworks such as angular and react
Preferred Qualifications
1+ years of agile software development methodology experience
Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.