Sr. Software Engineer, Amazon QuickSight

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, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
If you enjoy solving complex problems, building services used by millions of users, proudly standing behind the services you built, and continuously innovate and delight customers. You should keep reading.

At Amazon QuickSight, we are redefining the way people and business making data informed decisions at scale. We build secure, simple, and scalable solutions to empower our customers and users to collaborate and share insights easily and quickly. Thus, we are looking for aspiring engineers to join our journey.

We are looking for a seasoned engineer to who is first and foremost security-minded. You would bring years of experience designing, building, and operating large distributed system with an extremely high bar for security, availability, reliability, and resiliency. You also have experience driving a few large and ambiguous initiatives, bringing clarity to align stakeholders with well defined success criteria, and see that through inception to completion. You also proactively grow the engineering community, mentor other engineers.

If this sound like you, we are keen to learn more from you.

Key job responsibilities
- Shape up the security engineering culture and developer experience, promote secure architecture and tooling.
- Influence both technical and product direction. Partner with stakeholders to drive large and complex initiatives.
- Improve the quality of the whole SDLC such as design, implementation, testing, and operation.
- Design, implement, deliver solutions that s secure, reliable, and scalable.
- Contribute to the engineering community by mentoring other engineers.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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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 - 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