Software Development Engineer, AWS Usage Forecast Planning
Amazon · Seattle, WA · Software Development
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Software Engineer based in Seattle, WA. The posting calls out experience with Python, JavaScript, Java, Scala. Compensation is listed at $143,700–$194,400 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Seattle, WA
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Apr 13, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersThe AWS Usage Forecast Planning team partners with all AWS service teams to forecast, plan and 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…