Think big. The Automated Augmentation team delivers innovative infrastructure software that enables automated instrumentation and augmentation for a vast number of services across Amazon. We create framework abstractions and bundle best practices to significantly reduce the effort required for teams to implement and distribute software addressing cross-cutting concerns. Our solutions provide essential capabilities such as context propagation, security token management, traffic telemetry, and automated routing, while eliminating duplicated builder effort and code. As a senior software development engineer on our team, you will design and build solutions to accelerate company-wide initiatives in region expansion, observability, security, and availability spaces. Your contributions will have a substantial impact, benefiting a multitude of services and teams at Amazon by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing the developer experience. You'll tackle complex yet engaging challenges, balancing big-picture thinking with attention to detail. Supported by a robust Principal Engineering community, you'll collaborate with numerous cross-cutting teams and technologies. Our software provides a unique opportunity to contribute to Amazon's internal ecosystem, considering new perspectives when developing features. Join us in creating and evolving the abstractions that make developing software at Amazon even more reliable and flexible!

You will solve complex yet fun challenges by looking at the big picture while diving into the details. You will be supported by a large and experienced Principal Engineering community and work with many cross-cutting teams and technologies. The open-source aspect of our software gives you a unique opportunity to contribute and benefit beyond Amazon, and take on new perspectives and considerations when developing features. Come help us create and evolve the abstractions that make developing software at Amazon even more reliable and flexible!

Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a highly motivated engineer who understands service-oriented architecture, and will help us help the business innovate quickly at scale. You will be responsible for scoping and delivering projects end-to-end, defining metrics that matter, and anticipating customer and business needs. You will deliver results personally and by leading your peers, as well as collaborating with stakeholders and our community of customers.

Your excellent communication skills will be showcased as you share your architectural visions and technical solutions with others. Your proven track record of designing and building distributed software solutions through an agile methodology enables you to get a fast start. Your ability to dive deep into a wide variety of problems and technologies will guide the right technical decisions for the Amazon products you support. You will mentor and foster the career growth of other engineers.

A day in the life
The Automated Augmentation team is part of the Region Flexibility Engineering organization, which supports the rapid global expansion of Amazon's infrastructure. Our projects support all Amazon businesses like Stores, Alexa, Kindle, Prime Video. We drive adoption of ever-evolving AWS and non-AWS technologies, and work closely with AWS teams to improve AWS public offerings. Our organization focuses on robust and scalable solutions, simple to use, and delivered with engineering best practices. We leverage and build foundational infrastructure capabilities, tools, and datasets that enable Amazon teams to delight our customers. With millions of people using Amazon’s products every day, we appreciate the importance of making our solutions “just work”.

About the team
The Automated Augmentation team is part of the Region Flexibility Engineering organization, which supports the rapid global expansion of Amazon's infrastructure. Our projects support all Amazon businesses like Stores, Alexa, Kindle, Prime Video. We drive adoption of ever-evolving AWS and non-AWS technologies, and work closely with AWS teams to improve AWS public offerings.

Our organization focuses on robust and scalable solutions, simple to use, and delivered with engineering best practices. We leverage and build foundational infrastructure capabilities, tools, and datasets that enable Amazon teams to delight our customers. With millions of people using Amazon’s products every day, we appreciate the importance of making our solutions “just work”.