What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Development Engineer, Workshop Studio position at Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
Description
Workshop Studio (WS) is an AWS platform that powers hands-on technical learning and product experiences for hundreds of thousands of current and potential AWS customers. WS is transitioning to an AI-native architecture with agentic systems that will discover content, guide participants in real time, automate workshop quality review and generate post-event intelligence.
Key job responsibilities
Design and implement fault-tolerant systems and services that run at large scale and ensure high availability guarantees using AWS services including, but not limited to: Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudFront, SQS, SNS, AppSync, KMS etc..
Own defining, disambiguating, designing, and implementing multi-tier distributed software systems and applications. Dive into complex architectures, research and identify new technology that can help optimize performance.
Design and implement systems that will help our service scale within a year. Design and implement software that will help minimize outages and improve the availability of our service.
Estimate effort, plan implementation, and launch systems that meet requirements for functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, and adherence to development goals and principles.
Experiment, innovate and deliver fast, agile, and reliable with high quality and low technical debt.
You should be passionate about building, improving and championing the product and a strong sense of ownership is a must.
Leverage GenAI to automate operational tasks for the team, maintain runbooks, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides based on resolved incidents, code changes, and operational patterns
About The Team
The Workshop Studio team owns one of the largest fleet of AWS accounts in the world. We own React web apps, CDK infrastructure, Go and Python Lambdas, Step Functions workflows, DynamoDB data stores, git repositories for workshop artifacts and an analytics layer built on Redshift. The team includes an engineering manager, product manager, several backend engineers and a front-end engineer, with shared access to a UX designer, technical program managers, business intelligence engineer and senior engineers including a principal engineer.
Basic Qualifications
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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, NJ, Jersey City - 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Austin - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
Company - Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Job ID: A10440493
Workshop Studio (WS) is an AWS platform that powers hands-on technical learning and product experiences for hundreds of thousands of current and potential AWS customers. WS is transitioning to an AI-native architecture with agentic systems that will discover content, guide participants in real time, automate workshop quality review and generate post-event intelligence.
Key job responsibilities
Design and implement fault-tolerant systems and services that run at large scale and ensure high availability guarantees using AWS services including, but not limited to: Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudFront, SQS, SNS, AppSync, KMS etc..
Own defining, disambiguating, designing, and implementing multi-tier distributed software systems and applications. Dive into complex architectures, research and identify new technology that can help optimize performance.
Design and implement systems that will help our service scale within a year. Design and implement software that will help minimize outages and improve the availability of our service.
Estimate effort, plan implementation, and launch systems that meet requirements for functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, and adherence to development goals and principles.
Experiment, innovate and deliver fast, agile, and reliable with high quality and low technical debt.
You should be passionate about building, improving and championing the product and a strong sense of ownership is a must.
Leverage GenAI to automate operational tasks for the team, maintain runbooks, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides based on resolved incidents, code changes, and operational patterns
About The Team
The Workshop Studio team owns one of the largest fleet of AWS accounts in the world. We own React web apps, CDK infrastructure, Go and Python Lambdas, Step Functions workflows, DynamoDB data stores, git repositories for workshop artifacts and an analytics layer built on Redshift. The team includes an engineering manager, product manager, several backend engineers and a front-end engineer, with shared access to a UX designer, technical program managers, business intelligence engineer and senior engineers including a principal engineer.
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
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C , Java, or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- 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
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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, NJ, Jersey City - 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Austin - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
Company - Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Job ID: A10440493