The AWS Capacity Forecasting team engages with all AWS service teams to build the world's largest Cloud infrastructure. Come make history!
Our main objective is to perform demand planning to create forecast which helps power all the AWS services physical infrastructure needs. The team owns demand forecasts software and capacity optimization systems hardware which produces hardware ordering recommendation. As part of EC2 Core Platform, we aim to strike a nimble balance between capacity availability and utilization.
We provide demand forecasts for all AWS services and automate the procurement of hardware to support our rapidly growing business. We apply advanced forecasting, data mining, and machine learning techniques to predict customer demand growth. We also build capacity models for foundational AWS services and identify their performance bottlenecks (disk/CPU/IO, etc.) to serve ever-increasing customer demand. Combining the demand forecast and the capacity model, we generate hardware purchases that optimize across customer experience and hardware utilization. Our software drives the many billions of dollars in CapEx that AWS spends every year, and our projects help improve AWS utilization to reduce CapEx by 100s of millions of dollars every year.
On technology front, we use Scala, Java, Python, JavaScript, Lambda, DynamoDB, as well as other public AWS services and Amazon-internal tools. We are looking for someone who is passionate about data and problem solving. We don’t expect you to be an expert in-- or necessarily familiar with-- all of these technologies, but we expect you to be excited to learn.
Key job responsibilities
You will work directly with business owners, research scientists, other software development teams, and owners of major AWS services. This role requires an individual with excellent analytical abilities, deep knowledge of software engineering principles, as well as a passion for problem-solving. Ideally, you are comfortable with ambiguity and accessing and working with data from multiple sources.
This position involves on-call responsibilities but since we don't own any direct customer facing services, the operational load is manageable.
About the team
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. While we do maintain core collaboration hours in the office, we also offer the flexibility to accommodate individual working styles. We've built a team culture that encourages knowledge sharing, and that celebrates openness, friendliness, collaboration, and the drive to "get things done".
We strongly believe in supporting new (and existing) members, and our team's broad mix of experience levels and tenures allow for a great deal of mentoring and learning opportunities. We care about your career growth; we do our best to assign projects to develop our team members into well-rounded professionals who are prepared take on tasks of increasing complexity as their career progresses.- 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- 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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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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.
