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Amazon Software Development Engineer II, Workforce Planning in Seattle, Washington
Description
Success in any organization begins with its people and having a comprehensive understanding of our workforce and how we best utilize their unique skills and experience is paramount to our future success and is the primary focus of the Workforce Planning Team.
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
Come join the team that owns the technology behind AWS People Planning products, services, and metrics. We leverage technology to improve the experience of AWS Executives, HR/Recruiting/Finance leaders, and internal AWS planning partners.
As a Software Development Engineer (SDE) in the AWS Workforce Planning team, you will be involved in all aspects of the software development lifecycle including architecture, design, development, documentation, testing and operations. You will be an important part of the AWS Workforce products team and will focus on leveraging native AWS solutions to build and scale scrappy and new applications that will deliver consumer like experiences to AWS employees and candidates.
You will work closely with small teams of Software Engineers, Product Managers, Data Engineers and Scientists to create best practices/tooling in workforce planning, ML modeling, and analysis. You will enable a global staff of workforce strategists and cross functional groups to perform scenario analysis and understand downstream impact of workforce decisions. As a tech expert, you will be an advocate for compelling user experiences and will demonstrate the value of automation and data-driven planning tools in HR.
Key job responsibilities
This position is right for you if you are passionate about solving the ambiguous software challenges on behalf of our customers and users. Being deeply customer focused is a must: understand multiple customers’ challenges and you are constantly looking for ways to pursue them. You are able to think creatively, operate best within a small agile team, and are able to think like a product manager while still supporting our Data team.
This Role will:
Actively collaborate with our product manager and implementation team to understand requirements and acceptance criteria.
Lead designing, building, and testing features for brand new planning applications.
Support and collaborate with our with our other SDEs and DEs.
Consider and advise on key design and technology trade-offs as we launch, scale and migrate new planing applications.
To be successful on this journey, you love having high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and always look for opportunities to make our services better.
About the team
Workforce Planning (a part of the AWS People Experience and Technology Business) is embedded in every part of the planning ecosystem including financial planning targets, optimization modeling, talent and location intelligence, headcount planning, forecasting and much more, touching every step of the employee lifecycle up to the point of hire. Our small team of strategists, PMs, developers, data engineers and scientists are passionate about using technology and data driven decisions to define the "who, what, when, and where" of the AWS workforce.
Our org has a broad mix of professional experience levels, Amazon tenures, backgrounds, cultures, and identities, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing, mentorship, and results. Yes we do get to build a really cool service, but we also think a big reason for that is the collaborative culture, and career opportunities we try to cultivate every day.
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. 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:
Arlington, VA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
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
Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Fullstack Experience: FE - HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Demonstrated experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
BE - experience with backend development of microservices with RESTful APIs. Should have deep expertise with at least one backend framework such as Spring, Django, Gin, or Express.js
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
Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
Cloud Architecture: experience with cloud services development such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. Experience deploying serverless (AWS Lambda) APIs. Experience with AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) or similar.
Database Skills: Familiarity with relational DBs such as PostgresSQL, BI Data Warehouses such as AWS Redshift, and NoSQL Databases such as DynamoDB.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
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. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.