- Amazon’s cloud unit is hiring over 20,000 people. Insider broke down what it’s looking for.
- Insider also found what those roles might pay by matching salaries from visa data with the openings.
- The jobs reveal AWS is staffing up heavily for engineers, IT services, and solutions architects.
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Amazon’s cloud business is the leader in the cloud computing industry, reporting during its quarterly earnings last week that it’s now a massive $59 billion-a-year business.
But to keep that dominance, Amazon Web Services needs talent in an increasingly competitive market for people with cloud skills. The cloud titan is currently hiring for 20,004 people to support its business as of Friday afternoon, according to its own jobs page.
To get a sense for the top areas AWS is hiring for, as well as the cloud unit’s priorities, Insider looked at the open positions, located all over the world (and many offered remotely, reflecting a larger trend) — and how much those jobs might pay in base salary.
Based on how AWS categorizes positions on its jobs page, the most in-demand area at AWS is software engineering with nearly 5,500 open jobs, followed by professional services with over 4,000 jobs, then solutions architects with over 1,500 jobs, and finally sales and marketing combined with over 1,200 jobs.
And while Amazon doesn’t generally list pay expectations alongside its openings, American companies are required to disclose salary information when they apply for H-1B work visas on behalf of “high skilled” current or prospective foreign workers.
Notably, that data doesn’t account for additional compensation like cash bonuses or stock awards, which can make up a significant portion of an employee’s total pay package. Each salary is also dependent on location, as noted below.
Insider previously reviewed the 236 H-1B visas Amazon’s cloud unit applied for from January to June of this year to get a rare look at how much it paid its software developers, data scientists, marketers, salespeople, business analysts, and more. Insider then cross-referenced AWS’s job postings with that data to determine what some of those roles might pay in base salary. The highest-paid employees at AWS, per that data, can make as much as $185,000 in salary.
An AWS spokesperson wrote in a statement to Insider: “We’re currently hiring around the globe, in a variety of different technical and business roles, to not only meet the needs of our customers and partners today but also predict and create what they’ll need in the future and push the boundaries on what’s possible for cloud computing.”
Here’s a brief look at the over 20,000 jobs AWS is currently hiring for around the world, and how much they might pay in base salary:
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