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Posted date: May 01, 2025
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Location: Seattle, WA
Estimated salary: $206,400
Range: $151,300 - $261,500
Description
The AWS Usage Forecast Planning team engages with all AWS service teams to build the world's largest Cloud infrastructure. Come make history!We own software systems for generating a reliable, feasible and explainable Usage Plans for all the AWS Services. Our goal is to be able to simulate the usage plans with revenue, cost and efficiency implications in a faster, reliable and explainable way. Our main objective is to perform usage planning to create forecast which helps power all the AWS services physical infrastructure needs. As part of EC2 Core Platform, we aim to strike a nimble balance between capacity availability and utilization.
We provide usage forecasts for all AWS services and automate the planning 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 supportability models for foundational AWS services and identify their planning bottlenecks to serve ever-increasing customer demand. Combining the usage forecast and the supportability models, we generate plan of record 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.
What we own:
Building a world-class forecasting platform that scales to handling billions of time series data in real time.
Expanding planning models and systems for each AWS service in the fast-growing AWS product portfolio.
Finding out the optimal tradeoff between AWS service availability and fleet utilization.
Driving fleet efficiency improvement where each 1% means millions of additional free cash flow.
Automating tactical and strategic capacity planning tools to optimize for service availability and infrastructure cost.
What you will learn:
Forecast and planning management for the Cloud.
The internals of all AWS services.
How to build large scale distributed systems for both internal and external AWS customers.
Functional Programming.
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 (gender diversity) 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.
Keywords:
Forecasting, Statistics, Machine Learning, Optimization, Inventory Management, Supply Chain Management, FinTech, AWS, Cloud, Cloud Computing, EC2, S3, EBS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Java, C++, object oriented, Java, Scala, distributed systems, high availability, scalability, concurrent
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.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Extended Qualifications
- 5+ 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.
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 $151,300/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.
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