Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and partner teams across AWS to define requirements, align on system interfaces, and deliver integrated solutions.
Drive engineering best practices across the team, including code quality, testing strategies, operational excellence, and effective use of generative AI tools to improve productivity.
Mentor and coach other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on guidance, raising the overall technical bar of the team.
A day in the life
Your morning might start with leading a design review for a new component, where you work through trade-offs with your team before writing a technical design document. After lunch you could be deep in code, building a prototype that validates a new approach to workload orchestration for very large clusters. Later, you join a cross-team sync with partner AWS service teams to align on an API contract. Throughout, you balance hands-on engineering with guiding teammates on their own projects, ensuring the pieces come together into a cohesive product.
About the team
The AWS High Performance Computing team builds services that empower customers to run complex computational workloads simply and efficiently in the cloud. We work at the intersection of distributed systems, scheduling, and cloud infrastructure, serving researchers and engineers across industries who need reliable, large-scale compute.
Our team values knowledge sharing and mentorship. We maintain an inclusive environment where engineers at every experience level learn from one another through thoughtful code reviews and collaborative problem-solving. We are growing and investing in new capabilities, and this is an exciting time to help shape the future of parallel computing on AWS.
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
Bachelor's 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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, MA, Boston - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
