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. 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. * 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our 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. 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 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 $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.