Software Development Engineer, Workshop Studio

Workshop Studio Engineer

Workshop Studio (WS) is an AWS platform that powers hands-on technical learning and product experiences for hundreds of thousands of current and potential AWS customers. WS is transitioning to an AI-native architecture with agentic systems that will discover content, guide participants in real time, automate workshop quality review and generate post-event intelligence.

Key job responsibilities:

• Design and implement fault-tolerant systems and services that run at large scale and ensure high availability guarantees using AWS services including, but not limited to: Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudFront, SQS, SNS, AppSync, KMS etc..
• Own defining, disambiguating, designing, and implementing multi-tier distributed software systems and applications.
• Dive into complex architectures, research and identify new technology that can help optimize performance.
• Design and implement systems that will help our service scale within a year. Design and implement software that will help minimize outages and improve the availability of our service.
• Estimate effort, plan implementation, and launch systems that meet requirements for functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, and adherence to development goals and principles.
• Experiment, innovate and deliver fast, agile, and reliable with high quality and low technical debt.
• You should be passionate about building, improving and championing the product and a strong sense of ownership is a must. Leverage GenAI to automate operational tasks for the team, maintain runbooks, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides based on resolved incidents, code changes, and operational patterns.

About the team:

The Workshop Studio team owns one of the largest fleet of AWS accounts in the world. We own React web apps, CDK infrastructure, Go and Python Lambdas, Step Functions workflows, DynamoDB data stores, git repositories for workshop artifacts and an analytics layer built on Redshift. The team includes an engineering manager, product manager, several backend engineers and a front-end engineer, with shared access to a UX designer, technical program managers, business intelligence engineer and senior engineers including a principal engineer.