What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Front-End Engineer, Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.
You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
We are looking for a passionate front-end engineer to innovate in building websites, deliver web-services that customers love, and help us build the future of application monitoring at AWS. You will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of products used every day, by people you know.
You'll be part of a committed team in a dynamic environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. The opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in front-end engineering and cloud computing. You'll be surrounded by people who are innovative, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class service is critical to customer success. You will work alongside some of the best software and network development engineers in the world. You'll know what it means to operate, scale, and posture the largest customer facing cloud network in the world.
Interested in a team with strong culture and camaraderie? Have the passion to build the best experience possible for customers and the drive to make an impact? We would love to talk to you!
Key job responsibilities
* A passion for creating beautiful, engaging, intuitive, efficient and highly usable user interfaces.
* Track record delivering front-end software that is correct, stable, high performance, secure, and accessibility compliant.
* Knowledge of engineering and operational excellence best practices.
* Understands how to be efficient with resource usage (e.g., application impact on memory and CPU, caches appropriately, respectful of customer’s devices, etc.).
* Knows how to instrument software with real user metrics to reflect the customer experience
* Experience building scalable front-end infrastructure software or distributed systems for commercial online services.
* Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices.
* Ability to analyze a user challenge and compose a solution with clear software and UX design actions.
* Can articulate the challenges and benefits of depending on front-end libraries, frameworks, and tool-sets.
* Ability to work on a diverse team and values diverse perspectives.
* Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
* Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
A day in the life
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.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
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.
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 conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship and 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.
About the team
The Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) team is responsible for the services that monitor the health of Amazon’s traffic to and from the the Internet and within Amazon's internal network. NPM is a fully-managed network performance monitoring service that provides near real-time visibility of network performance, enabling customers to rapidly detect and attribute network driven impairments to their AWS workloads. We provide the foundations for network health, observability and triangulation for AWS customer resources. Our biggest value proposition is to look at a variety of input data sources and come up with a network health indicator indicating the source of the impairment, associated visualizations, alarms, and fault isolation.
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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5 years of front-end developer creating prototypes or wire-frames for enterprise web applications or workflows experience
- 4 years of non-internship professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS experience
- Experience developing with MVC/MVM frameworks (e.g. React.JS, AngularJS, Vue)
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of web services technologies such as SOAP, HTTP, WSDL, XSD, and REST
- Experience in a broad range of software design approaches and common UX patterns.
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 $136,700/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/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.
Salary : $136,700 - $261,500
