<p><img src="https://static4.businessinsider.com/image/60db3ffb1477f300188c84dc-1714/2021-02-02T211023Z_1690263839_RC2LKL9IK342_RTRMADP_3_AMAZON-COM-RESULTS.JPG" border="0" alt="Andy Jassy" data-mce-source="Mike Blake/Reuters" data-mce-caption="Andy Jassy, who leads Amazon Web Services, will replace Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO and leaves an opening for a cloud new leader."></p><p></p><bi-shortcode id="summary-shortcode" data-type="summary-shortcode" class="mceNonEditable" contenteditable="false">Summary List Placement</bi-shortcode><p>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 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/amazon-web-services-revenue-grows-by-37-hits-59-billion-annual-run-rate/articleshow/84883879.cms">$59 billion-a-year business</a>.</p><p>But to keep that dominance, Amazon Web Services needs talent in an <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-microsoft-cloud-growth-threatened-by-it-tech-talent-shortage-2021-7">increasingly competitive market for people with cloud skills.</a> The cloud titan is currently hiring for 20,004 people to support its business as of Friday afternoon, according to <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/business_categories/amazon-web-services">its own jobs page</a>.</p><p>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, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/andy-jassy-amazon-aws-future-of-work-predictions-hot-offices-2020-12">reflecting a larger trend</a>)and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-salaries-for-engineers-analysts-marketers-2021-6">how much those jobs might pay in base salary</a>. </p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-salaries-for-engineers-analysts-marketers-2021-6">Insider previously reviewed</a> 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.</p><p>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."</p><h3>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:</h3><h3>Software engineering: 5,489 open roles</h3><img src="https://static1.businessinsider.com/image/606bd2aa856cd700198a3492-400-300/software-engineering-5489-open-roles.jpg" alt="" /><p><p>The Amazon jobs site shows it has 5,489 open job roles in software development, located in cities like Boston, New York, Cupertino, Dublin, and Vancouver. AWS also breaks out specific teams hiring for developers — the machine learning group has 84 open roles, the security engineering team has 243, and the system development team has 602.</p><p>Engineers at AWS are some of the cloud unit's most important personnel, writing the code that allows the company to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-amazon-web-services-expanded-cloud-empire-beyond-infrastructure-2021-3">release new services and features at a breakneck pace</a>.</p><p>Many of the open engineering roles focus on Redshift, the AWS data warehouse product the company itself also uses: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-cto-werner-vogels-oracle-redshift-2019-3">CTO Werner Vogels once said</a> the highlight of 2018 was when Amazon officially shut off its largest Oracle data warehouse in favor of Redshift. </p><p>Other engineering teams at AWS, including networking, cloud management tools, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-launches-aws-ground-station-the-station-as-a-service-2018-11">space and satellite systems</a>, and its core compute service <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-ec2-cloud-goes-to-per-second-pricing-2017-9">EC2</a>, are hiring for software developers at various levels. </p><p>Here are some of those engineering jobs, as well as salaries for similar roles pulled from H-1B visa data:</p><ul><li aria-level="1">AWS is hiring a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1113140/sr-manager-software-development-redshift">senior software development manager</a> focused on Redshift in East Palo Alto, CA. Visa data shows it hired a senior software development manager in California for $185,000.</li><li aria-level="1">In Austin, TX, AWS is looking for a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1641210/software-development-engineer-ii">software development engineer II</a>, also focused on Redshift. According to H-1B data, AWS offered an engineer in Texas at that level a salary of $152,000. </li><li aria-level="1">AWS is also hiring a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1641403/software-development-engineer-1">software development engineer I</a> based in Arlington, VA, the base for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-hq2-designs-helix-arlington-virginia-2021-2">Amazon's next big headquarters</a>. This engineer will help AWS root out fraud and protect customers from cyberattacks. According to visa data, AWS offered an engineer at the same level in Virginia a salary of $76,690 to $103,200.</li><li aria-level="1">In Seattle, AWS is looking for a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1643207/software-dev-engineer-i">software development engineer I</a> focused on SageMaker Studio, its product for helping developers build, train, and deploy machine learning models. H-1B data shows the company hired an engineer at the same level in Washington state with a salary of $92,102 to $140,000.</li></ul></p><br/><br/><h3>Professional services: 4,099 open roles</h3><img src="https://static2.businessinsider.com/image/610d85de38aff7001890511f-400-300/professional-services-4099-open-roles.jpg" alt="" /><p><p>There are 4,099 open roles in professional services on the Amazon jobs site, located in cities like New York, Atlanta, Denver, Munich, and Buenos Aires. Of those roles, AWS categories 3,281 as solutions architects, and a smaller number within are titled "professional services." AWS also lists some software development and sales roles within the larger category.</p><p>The professional services team at AWS is dedicated to enterprise clients — some of the most valuable because they're often the largest and most lucrative of customers. Professional services also has the expertise to help those customers actually start using their cloud technologies, which is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-microsoft-cloud-growth-threatened-by-it-tech-talent-shortage-2021-7">a coveted resource currently in short supply for AWS and others</a>.</p><p>Here are some of those professional services jobs and how much they pay, according to salaries for similar roles from visa data:</p><ul><li aria-level="1">AWS is hiring for a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1646438/professional-services-ii-0000">professional services II</a> employee based in Santa Monica, CA. Though visa data doesn't show it hired a Professional Services II worker in California, it showed some in Virginia, at the same level, with salaries of $123,520 to $150,000. </li><li aria-level="1">In Seattle, the cloud giant is looking for a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1520038/professional-services-iii-0000">professional services III</a> employee to help customers use tools like <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-cto-werner-vogels-oracle-data-warehouse-2018-11">Redshift</a>. A Professional Services III role in Washington state paid $130,000 to $140,000, according to H-1B data.</li></ul></p><br/><br/><h3>Solutions architects: 1,544 open roles</h3><img src="https://static6.businessinsider.com/image/610c56f538aff7001890210f-400-300/solutions-architects-1544-open-roles.jpg" alt="" /><p><p>Amazon lists 1,544 open roles for solutions architects on its jobs site, in cities such as New York, London, Tokyo, São Paulo, and Amsterdam. 1,449 of those roles are listed as solutions architects jobs; others are in areas like project management and software development.</p><p>As with any team that works with external stakeholders, solutions architects are often the face of AWS to customers. That also means they might help the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-salespeople-discontent-google-cloud-poaching-ubs-2021-7">AWS sales team</a> close deals and prevent customers from jumping ship.</p><p>Solutions architects typically travel to visit clients in-person, and notably, <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1459478/solution-architect">some AWS job listings</a> say "post pandemic" travel is expected to be 15-20%.</p><p>Here are some of those solutions architect jobs and how much they pay, according to salaries for similar roles in visa data:</p><ul><li aria-level="1">AWS is hiring a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1459478/solution-architect">solutions architect</a> based in Chicago, and visa data shows it hired a Solutions Architect I in Illinois with a salary of $90,800.</li><li aria-level="1">In Seattle, AWS is looking for a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1647963/senior-startups-solutions-architect">senior solutions architect</a> focused on helping startups, which it calls "the large enterprises of the future." A Solutions Architect II in Washington state was paid $134,820 to $134,900, according to H-1B data.</li><li aria-level="1">In New York, AWS is hiring principal solutions architects for many of its key industries: <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1632153/principal-solutions-architect">media and entertainment</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1628031/principal-partner-solutions-architect-financial-services">financial services</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1293767/principal-solutions-architect-global-life-sciences">life sciences</a>. The company hired a Solutions Architect III in New York with a salary of $134,000 to $185,000, according to visa data.</li></ul></p><br/><br/><h3>Sales and Marketing: 1,258 open roles</h3><img src="https://static3.businessinsider.com/image/610c574338aff7001890211a-400-300/sales-and-marketing-1258-open-roles.jpg" alt="" /><p><p>Amazon's own jobs site shows it has 1,258 open job roles across sales and marketing, located in cities like Seattle, San Francisco, Arlington, Miami, London, and Tokyo. That breaks down to 942 in sales and 316 in marketing.</p><p>AWS does cross-list some marketing and sales roles in other categories such as software development, IT, and business intelligence, but the majority of jobs listed in the marketing and sales categories are in line with responsibilities typical of those corporate functions.</p><p>The AWS sales team is crucial in its fight against rivals Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, as top sales reps often bring in large, enterprise companies as customers. But recent murmurings of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-salespeople-discontent-google-cloud-poaching-ubs-2021-7">discontent on the AWS sales team</a> means the cloud giant needs to be especially vigilant about hiring, especially as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-salespeople-discontent-google-cloud-poaching-ubs-2021-7">competitors like Google are said to be looking to poach from among its ranks</a>.</p><p>Marketers focused on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-2021-top-challenges-opportunities-year-ahead-2021-4">industry verticals are also critical to AWS</a> as it pushes into sectors like manufacturing, telecom, and healthcare — an <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-spending-16-billion-beat-google-amazon-healthcare-2021-4">industry that Microsoft recently made a splash in with its purchase of AI firm Nuance</a>.</p><p>Here's a selection of open roles in marketing and sales, as well as salaries for similar roles pulled from H-1B data:</p><ul><li aria-level="1">AWS is looking for an <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1642683/amazon-web-services-enterprise-sales-representative">enterprise sales rep</a> based in San Francisco. Visa data shows it hired a Sales Rep III in California earlier this year for $132,000 to $185,000 in base salary.</li><li aria-level="1">The cloud titan also has a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1588755/sr-business-sales-operations-manager">senior business and sales operations manager</a> role open in Seattle, and H-1B data shows it hired a Sales Operations III employee in Washington state making $145,000 to $152,000 in base salary.</li><li aria-level="1">AWS is hiring a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1601197/field-marketing-manager-industry">field marketing manager</a> focused on specific industries in the US or remote, and a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1537814/senior-product-marketing-manager">senior product marketing manager</a> in Chicago, IL. While H-1B data doesn't have an exact match for these roles, it shows AWS offered a functional marketer in California $117,000, and a Marketing III employee in Illinois $120,000.</li></ul></p><br/><br/><h3>Program managers: 666 open roles</h3><img src="https://static4.businessinsider.com/image/60c25d0f6d855e0018157687-400-300/program-managers-666-open-roles.jpg" alt="" /><p><p>The Amazon jobs site shows 666 open roles for program managers, in cities such as New York, London, Singapore, and Tel Aviv. 311 of those jobs are categorized in technical areas, and 200 are in non-technical areas. Other jobs in the program management category are listed in software development, support, and more.</p><p>Program managers at AWS serve as a connective tissue between developers and business team members. As with product managers, they're expected to advocate on behalf of customers and are critical to keeping them happy — <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/adam-selipsky-new-amazon-web-services-ceo-has-one-job-2021-3">helping AWS stay the course</a> as a $59 billion-a-year business.</p><p>Here are some of those program management jobs and how much they pay, according to salaries for similar roles from visa data:</p><ul><li aria-level="1">In Arlington, VA, (<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-hq2-designs-helix-arlington-virginia-2021-2">the site of Amazon's next big headquarters</a>) AWS is looking for a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1646005/technical-program-manager-ii">technical program manager II</a> focused on S3, its cloud storage service. It paid a Technical Program Manager at the same level in Virginia a salary of $108,700 to $160,000, according to visa data.</li><li aria-level="1">AWS is hiring a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1551903/technical-program-manager-iii">technical program manager III</a> based in Seattle for its security vulnerability management team. Visa data shows it hired a Technical Program Manager in Washington state at the same level with a salary of $152,000 to $156,200.</li></ul></p><br/><br/><h3>Product management: 488 open roles</h3><img src="https://static1.businessinsider.com/image/60b93c5f93c6fa00195e5087-400-300/product-management-488-open-roles.jpg" alt="" /><p><p>There are 488 open product management roles on the Amazon jobs site, located in cities like Austin, Boston, Vancouver, and Berlin. Of those roles, AWS listed 399 in technical product management, and 42 in non-technical product management. AWS also lists some of those roles in areas like training development and software development.</p><p>Product managers are critical for tech companies because they often advocate for customer needs and help define where new products are headed — that's important for AWS, as it <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-amazon-web-services-expanded-cloud-empire-beyond-infrastructure-2021-3">releases a lot of products every year</a>.</p><p>Some open product management roles are on strategic AWS teams like <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-cant-challenge-microsoft-office-cloud-software-dominance-overnight-2021-7">business applications</a>, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-launches-industrial-ai-tools-for-monitoring-productivity-safety-2020-12">artificial intelligence</a>, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-aurora-debanjan-saha-2019-4">databases</a>, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-coming-for-healthcare-ai-analytics-firms-2020-12">healthcare</a>.</p><p>Here are some of those product management jobs and how much they pay, according to salaries for similar roles in visa data:</p><ul><li aria-level="1">AWS is hiring a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1531647/senior-technical-product-manager">senior technical product manager</a> for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-chime-apps-microsoft-zoom-google-remote-work-2020-6">Chime, its videoconferencing app</a>, based in San Francisco. Visa data shows it hired a Product Manager Technical III in California with a salary of $155,000.</li><li aria-level="1">In Seattle, the cloud giant is looking for a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1588564/senior-product-manager-technical-amazon-dynamodb">senior technical product manager</a> for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-documentdb-mongodb-database-2019-1">DocumentDB, its document database service</a>. A similar role for a Product Manager III in Washington state paid $155,000, according to H-1B data.</li></ul></p><br/><br/><h3>Data science: 185 open roles</h3><img src="https://static1.businessinsider.com/image/610c57cc38aff7001890214c-400-300/data-science-185-open-roles.jpg" alt="" /><p><p>According to Amazon's jobs site, it has 185 open jobs in data science, located in cities like Santa Clara, Seattle, and Berlin. Some of those roles are listed in categories like software development or business intelligence, but 62 are listed as strictly data science jobs.</p><p>Data scientists at AWS have a lot to work with — the scale of Amazon's cloud means it generates enormous amounts of data that can be turned into business insights. The company's "data-driven decision making" culture, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/business-advice-from-amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-2016-4#-11">made famous by founder Jeff Bezos</a>, means data is a top priority in and outside the company.</p><p>Here's a selection of data science jobs at AWS, and what the company pays data scientists according to H-1B data:</p><ul><li aria-level="1">In Arlington, VA, (<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-hq2-designs-helix-arlington-virginia-2021-2">Amazon's next big headquarters</a>) AWS is hiring a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1448670/data-scientist-ii-aws-region-services-rbe-labs">data scientist II</a> focused on region services, the team in charge of expanding its cloud infrastructure into new areas. Visa data shows it hired a Data Scientist II in Virginia making $152,000 in base salary.</li><li aria-level="1">AWS is also hiring a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1505940/senior-data-scientist">senior data scientist</a> for its EC2 data science team, based in Seattle. The company hired a Data Scientist II in Washington state with a salary of $130,000 to $155,000, H-1B data shows.</li><li aria-level="1">In East Palo Alto, CA, AWS is looking for a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1427518/sr-data-engineer">senior data engineer</a> for its Redshift team. According to visa data, AWS offered a Data Engineer II in California a salary of $143,600.</li></ul></p><br/><br/><h3>Support engineers: 147 open roles</h3><img src="https://static4.businessinsider.com/image/610d80e138aff70018904f40-400-300/support-engineers-147-open-roles.jpg" alt="" /><p><p>There are 147 open roles for support engineers on the Amazon jobs site, in cities such as Austin, Seattle, Taipei, and Sydney. 101 of those jobs are listed as operations, IT, or support jobs, and others are in categories like engineering and sales.</p><p>Similar to solutions architects and sales reps, support engineers are responsible for helping customers and represent the company. They also help AWS customers <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/finops-foundation-cloud-is-about-making-money-not-saving-money-2021-6">get the most value from their cloud investments</a>.</p><p>Here are some of those support engineering jobs and how much they pay, according to salaries for similar roles from visa data:</p><ul><li aria-level="1">In Portland, OR, AWS is looking for a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1636522/cloud-support-engineer-i-big-data">cloud support engineer I</a> focused on big data products such as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-launches-new-cloud-service-to-make-huge-web-sites-faster-and-cheap-2012-1">DynamoDB</a>. According to visa data, it paid a cloud support engineer at the same level in Oregon a salary of $90,000 to $97,600.</li><li aria-level="1">AWS is hiring a <a href="https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1420997/cloud-support-engineer-ii-analytics">cloud support engineer II</a> based in Dallas/Fort Worth, TX focused on analytics services like <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elastic-shay-banon-amazon-web-services-elasticsearch-2019-7">Elasticsearch</a>. H-1B data shows it hired Cloud Support Engineer II in Texas with a salary of $77,334 to $142,800.</li><li aria-level="1">Also in Texas, AWS is looking for a cloud support engineer III focused on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-amazon-web-services-partners-competition-barracuda-networks-cloud-2021-7">security products such as GuardDuty</a>. A cloud support engineer in Texas at the same level was paid $101,088, according to H-1B data.</li></ul></p><br/><br/>
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