Job summary
Are you looking for an outsized impact on the world? Join us in helping our customers solve some of the most impactful technical problems in the world - curing cancer, building spaceships, or re-imagining the future of energy. Fortune 500 companies and startups around the world leverage our technology to run large scale computations on premises and on EC2 instances through a convenient and simple user interface.

The HPC group in AWS is looking for passionate fullstack software engineers interested in helping solve scientific problems at-scale in the cloud. We are developing a series of products which provide a simple way for scientists to run workloads and experiments efficiently.

You will be part of a distributed engineering team with members in Italy and United States.


Key job responsibilities
As a software development engineer you will be part of a team building software solutions for running HPC applications in the cloud. Two of our products include EnginFrame (https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/enginframe/) and AWS ParallelCluster (https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/parallelcluster/).

Your responsibilities will focus on solving real customer problems and will span across all aspects of development, from the design of microservices based distributed architectures to the development of new backend functionalities to the implementation of elegant user interfaces.

This position involves occasional on-call responsibilities, however the team works hard to ensure that the software is robust and pages are kept to a minimum.


A day in the life
We are looking for passionate people who are interested in solving problems which enable science and research at-scale. Every day there will be plenty of opportunity to influence the technical direction of our team. You will build software that runs at scale, you will learn and experiment with the latest technologies to innovate in the field of high performance computing, you will help other engineers on the team grow to their full potential.

About the team
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Several years programming experience with at least one modern language such as Python, JS, Kotlin, or Java
• Ability to work well with people and be both highly motivated and motivating

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong desire to build from ideation to execution
• Experience with DevOps practices

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