Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Audax - Cape Town, South Africa - Amazon Development Centre (South Africa) (Proprietary) Limited

Description

EC2, a part of Amazon Web Services, is a fast-growing business within Amazon that provides cost effective easy-to-use cloud computing resources to businesses of all sizes around the world.

With AWS, you can requisition compute power, storage, databases, and many other services, paying as you go for only the resources you need.

Are you interested in working on products, and solving genuine problems that are disrupting the cloud-computing industry? Does solving hard technical challenges appeal to you? Do you like working on products that are providing real value to AWS customers? If so, please join us in Amazon EC2 as we are growing our product teams quite rapidly and looking for the best software developers in the industry

This role is in EC2 Audax, the team responsible for the T (burstable) instance families.

We develop the software that ensures customer instances have access to the CPU cycles they need, when they need them, while minimizing the cost of wasted CPU capacity.

As we improve the T instance types, we'll support more and more customer workloads, driving down costs and adding value for customers.

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS's services and features apart in the industry.

As a member of the UC organization, you'll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS.

Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

About the team
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When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Cape Town, ZAF

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in professional, noninternship software development
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including objectoriented design
• Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ 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

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas.

In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa.

Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.