Senior Software Engineer, AWS Metering

Do you want to be a part of one of Amazons largest big-data processing teams Computing AWS bills at its core is a large-scale distributed systems problem that requires processing trillions of usage records every hour for millions of customers with a 100% accuracy promise.

As a senior software engineer you will develop and improve large-scale distributed systems on top of AWS services learn new technologies and build new applications on big-data platforms. AWS Metering is on the critical path of billing and you can expect your work to be used by hundreds of AWS teams impact millions of external customers and save millions of dollars.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isnt about how many hours you spend at home or at work; its about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to lifelong happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our experienced members enjoy providing one-on-one mentoring and thorough but kind code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Key job responsibilities
Design high-quality efficient and testable code in Java and other object-oriented languages.
Build large-scale highly available distributed systems that can grow tenfold every three years.
Develop new anomaly detection algorithms to detect and eliminate billing inaccuracies helping customers control costs.
Collaborate with AWS teams to build software and services that simplify their growing billing needs.
Own and operate the systems you build holding a high bar for data quality correctness and operational rigor.
Contribute to planning design implementation testing operations and process improvement as a member of a Scrum team.
Partner with product managers and engineers across Commerce Platform teams to deliver features and drive the adoption of best practices.

About the team
At AWS Metering we build billing services and features that enable event-metering storage-metering and derived metering. We enable cost allocation through tags and generate cost alerts for AWS customers. We also build and operate one of the largest big-data processing pipelines at Amazon continuously improving its scale and efficiency.

In addition we are developing new anomaly detection algorithms to minimize billing errors and designing new services aimed at reducing metering processing latencies from hours to minutes.

- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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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. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually