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As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Source software engineer within the Strategic Accounts segment, you will partner with our most valuable customers to design cloud architectures using Open Source technologies on AWS. Our customers use open source technologies (e.g. Backstage, Terraform, Crossplane, ArgoCD) as core components of their Internal Developer Platform (IDP) implementations. As an Open Source engineer on the Solutions Architecture team, you will provide customers with prescriptive guidance by developing tooling, examples, and reference implementations consistent with open source community standards and cloud-native best practices.

In this role, you will collaborate with AWS strategic customers and AWS open source engineers as well as AWS Field Teams (Account Managers, Solutions Architects, Technical Account Managers), and external open source project communities. If you have strong technical breadth complimented by deep platform development experience, are passionate about open source technologies, and are an active contributor to Open Source projects, we encourage you to apply. To learn more about Open Source @ AWS, head to aws.amazon.com/opensource.


Key job responsibilities
1. Understand Customer Needs: Gain a deep understanding of the customer's technical and business requirements, and identify key pain points in building Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) solutions using open-source technology on AWS.
2.Open-Source Community Engagement: Actively participate in and collaborate with key open-source communities to support our customers in building their IDP solutions.
3. Community Collaboration and Roadmap Management: Lead discussions with open-source community members to prioritize features and functionality, and maintain an up-to-date external roadmap.
4. Community Governance and Growth: Establish a governance model and drive community participation to ensure the sustainability and growth of the open-source projects.
5. Accelerate IDP Development: Develop plugins, tools, and reference implementations to accelerate the development of IAM solutions using open-source technologies.
6. Customer Support and Contribution: Unblock customers by collaborating with and contributing to open-source projects to address their needs.
7. Knowledge Sharing: Present your work and research at internal and external conferences to share your expertise and insights.
8. Scaling and Optimization: Contribute to and develop scaling and optimization techniques, such as sharding algorithms, to enhance the performance and scalability of IDP solutions.



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