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Software Development Engineer - Open Source Program Office, Open Source Program Office

Job ID: 2852289 | Amazon.com Services LLC

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services is the largest consumer cloud offering in the world, powering cutting edge science, rapidly growing start-ups and industry-leading companies.

Amazon's Open Source Program Office (OSPO) is hiring for an Open Source Software Development Engineer. You will join the team that is developing tooling and guidance for Open Source usage and project development for teams across Amazon.

The OSPO is accountable for everything related to Amazon’s consumption, usage, and distribution of open source software. We work closely with legal on licensing and compliance issues and we build the tools and processes that help engineers across Amazon build and deploy open source software. We partner with Amazon’s Builder tools organization to ensure open source software is available for use with as little friction as possible.
We are looking for a software development engineer to assist us in this mission.

Amazon has been with Open Source for a long time – a center for Perl development since the early days and a poster child for the use of Linux across the Enterprise in 2001 (when that was a shocking notion). Contributions have grown since 2007 and now we contribute to OpenSearch, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, OpenJDK, PostgreSQL, Rust, and the Linux kernel, plus many, many others. We also host our own Open Source projects – recent examples are Firecracker, Corretto, and Babelfish.

As a technical leader, you will have a broad role teaching teams how they can be more active contributors to some of the open source projects upon which they depend and assisting product managers and engineering managers in crafting their strategies and plans for the open-sourcing of new projects.

As a technical leader, you provide continuing services to our product and service team partners, helping them to evaluate the health of open source projects that they have started and helping them to define their success criteria and to measure how they are doing.

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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

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

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.

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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/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.