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2023-04-28 - Possible Hiring Opportunities


Intro

My collection point for any possible leads to help those looking for other SDE/SDM opportunities. Please do not reach out to my contacts without speaking with me first.


Roger’s personal contacts

Company

Openings?

Contact

Notes

GitHub

No

Inbal Shani

Currently in a freeze

LegalZoom

Yes: SDEs

Nancee Yago

“Our SDE 1 have to be located near a hub, LA, SF or Austin. We will have roles opening and totally respect your recommendation. Please feel free to connect anyone that you feel would be open to relocation (we don't pay) to Derek Sickles dsickles@legalzoom.com and reference my name.”

AVM

Yes: SDEs

 

John Shaw 1st degree connection 1st
CEO at Add Value Machine (AVM) | Generative AI/ML Entrepreneur | Ex AWS

"If they are interested they can send their resume to john@addvaluemachine.com. We are a scrappy startup and need people to rock it out and not expect AWS style salaries (at least initially)."

Velocity Global

Yes: SDEs + SDM

 

Srinivas Varavooru

Srini has 12 positions at all SDEs and SDM levels. Overwhelmed with requests though.

Undisclosed

Yes

Tuhina Purohit

I have some opening for Technical Program manager with a DevOps background in Santa Clara, CA for a contract role. Onsite only

MS Teams

No - later in July

Juan Rivera

Check back in July

Several startups

Yes: SDEs

Arvind Soni, WW Head of GTM, ECS, arvsoni@amazon.com

He is waiting for impacted folks to contact him.

AWS Security

No

Belle Guttman, Sr. Mgr, Security Engineering
bguttman@amazon.com

 

AWS DDB

No

Adam Abrevaya, General Manager, DocumentDB abrevaya@amazon.com

 

Amazon Robotics

Waiting

Scott Dresser, VP, Amazon Robotics, sdresser@amazon.com

Waiting for response

AWS In-Memory and Emerging DB

Waiting

Barris Morris, GM, In-Memory and Emerging DB, bamorri@amazon.com

Waiting for response

Citrix

Waiting

Karthik

 

AWS

 

Erik Orrgarde

Sr Container Services GTM Spec
eorrgard@amazon.com

Erik has a huge connection network and can help you connect with some folks,

Citrix

Waiting

Jitendra Deshpande, SVP & Head of Engineering, Citrix at Cloud Software Group

 

Leads from LinkedIn, Boards, Slack, etc. - no direct contact

Riot New Media

Yes: SDE

Amanda Nelson nnelsoa@amazon.com

Sr. Exec Marketing Manager

my friend's book media startup is hiring a full stack web developer; it's WFH and folks can live in Portland, Vancouver, Illinois, NY, NC, Pennsylvania, or VA. please pass along to anyone affected who may be interested https://riotnewmedia.com/careers/job-posting-full-stack-web-developer/

Vicarious

Yes: SDE

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7052746260818092032/

Vicarious Surgical Inc. is #hiring a DevOps Engineer! Incredible and rare opportunity to help build development infrastructure nearly from the ground up at a medical device company with a breakthrough surgical robot! Position is in MA

Recruiter

 

 

"I have a good friend who is a principal IT recruiter and has multiple open AWS opportunities"

Please contact:
Edempsey@judge.com

Various

Yes: SDEs, TPM

 

A LinkedIn thread with various postings

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aarthi-raju_2023layoffs-aws-activity-7057720736928452608-X7hD/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

AWS Security

 

Arthur Kendrick (PRSSec)

Security Engineer I akendriu@amazon.com

If there was anyone in a security compliance role that is looking for a job that was impacted we have some headcount opening up

Coupang

 

Varun Suri (suriva@amazon.com)


Mountain View:
Seattle:

MCorp

Yes: SDE

 


DataDog

Yes: SDE

Aritra Chakraborty

aritrach@amazon.com


My brother is engg manager there and he needs people.

Groups

Chime

 

 

- those who have been laid off will be able to see it for 60 or 90 days (depending on geography)

LinkedIn

 

 

LinkedIn Group to connect people: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12738440/.

LinkedIn

 

 

Link announcing the AWS talent board spreadsheet below. Read through comments as some people are posting leads there too.

Discord

 

 

Amazon Layoff discord channel

WhatsApp

 

 

An Ex-AWS group

Google

 

 

Google talent spreadsheet:

My team is hiring L6 TPM and L5 SDEs. susheelz@amazon.com Susheel Kumar

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I am hiring an https://www.amazon.jobs/en/internal/jobs/2361138/sr-machine-learning-engineer-digital-acceleration based in Seattle. Kushan Thakkar tkushan@amazon.com

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Laura Cruz lbcruz@amazon.com

I have a customer who is looking for the following if anyone knows someone who is now looking: Looking for Linux engineers with automation, ansible & cloud experience.

Looking for MQ engineers with AWS (SNS, Kafka, SQS, MQ) automation expertise.

Looking for cloud database engineers.

Looking for scrum masters.

In addition, if there are good application engineers (software engineers), that will be of interest.

Amanda Smith iamsmith@amazon.com

My partner is hiring a number of positions across multiple sectors int he Federal space.

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https://amazon.jobs/en/internal/jobs

 

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Laid off? Please join this group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12738440/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_groups_manage%3B9nb%2FPxOxQTy95aX%2BXxJg3A%3D%3D.

 

Steven Warwick scwarwi@amazon.com

Reposting that Pegasystems have various engineering roles open all across the world. If anyone comes across a role they feel are well qualified for please ping as I may be able to help expedite.

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Chong-Mok Park chongmok@amazon.com

Hello, Im in need to fill an SDE II role in Vancouver office. Please refer to the job description https://hire.amazon.com/jobs_new/5bb2ac2a-3ddb-4592-b94a-0bc1888c29ae?page=1&size=10&sort=NAME_ASCENDING&type=CANDIDATE&state[]=NONE for details and ping me if you are looking into a new position for an internal transfer. Entry-level SDE IIs who has recently been promoted are also welcome.

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[11:27 AM] Chetna Gupta 4 L5s SDE2 and L6 SDE3 opportunities in Amazon Pets Team based out of Seattle. Internal hiring only. Please reach out to me if you are interested

 

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Reposting: We are hiring 3 SDE-2's, 1 SDE-3 and 2 SDE-1's for Amazon Pets tech team. Details here: https://amazon.jobs/en/internal/jobs/2359618/software-development-engineer-pets-pets

Would appreciate if managers can reach out directly with candidates whom we can re-home. Preference is for Seattle based SDEs

Rohit Sethi rohitsj@amazon.com

I am hiring 4 L5 SDEs and an L6 SDE for my team in Seattle. Please reach out to me if you are interested or have any leads:
https://amazon.jobs/en/internal/jobs/2359618/software-development-engineer-pets-pets
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/internal/jobs/2358765/sr-software-development-engineer-pets-pets

 

 

 


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