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Wanna bet the description of this job post will be updated by the end of the day? "Software Development Engineer II, AWS Invoicing" https://www.amazon.jobs/de

Wanna bet the description of this job post will be updated by the end of the day? "Software Development Engineer II, AWS Invoicing" https://www.amazon.jobs/de/jobs/10428480/software-development-engineer-ii-aws-invoicing https://www.amazon.jobs/de/jobs/10428480/software-developmen... "...Our platforms are powered by generative AI, large language models, knowledge graphs, and agentic architectures that dynamically compose specialized agents based on context. We apply these capabilities across three reinforcing areas: intelligent launch readiness — where autonomous AI agents analyze, generate, and validate the information needed to go live in a new market; cloud-native service orchestration — where configuration-driven microservices replace per-launch bespoke engineering with centralized, reusable capabilities so that expanding into a new country becomes a zero-code configuration change rather than a development cycle; and continuous validation..."

sebmellen 3mo ago
That job description feels so far beyond parody that I could scarcely believe it until opening the link! What a world.
- root-parent 3mo ago
  It gets worst: "Senior Software Development Manager, AWS Global Bill Generation" https://www.amazon.jobs/de/jobs/10471948/senior-software-development-manager-aws-global-bill-generation https://www.amazon.jobs/de/jobs/10471948/senior-software-dev... "We're transforming from monthly batch processing and manual war rooms to continuous billing, autonomous agents, and self-healing infrastructure. We believe operational burden is a technical problem, not a staffing problem" This looks clearly...a staffing problem...
  - deleted 3mo ago
    [deleted]
  - iam-TJ 3mo ago
    The best bit of that is: > In this role, you will own end-to-end bill run execution across all AWS partitions, drive the technical vision for autonomous billing operations, and build the team that ensures every customer receives an accurate cost estimated in minutes ...
  - ghurtado 3mo ago
    > This looks clearly...a staffing problem.. I think that big tech recently decided that I got 99 problems but staffing ain't one I guess Nothing is a staffing problem when you make a rule that firing people is always the solution.
  - wbl 3mo ago
    If you can make the software cover the toil you save the staff for the tough cases.
  - quickthrowman 3mo ago
    They need to fire whoever is running AP and AP software development. Vibe invoicing is ridiculous for anyone to do, let alone Amazon.
  - naiveter 3mo ago
    > This looks clearly...a staffing problem... And if that weren't enough, the "manual war rooms" alone should be setting off alarm bells.
- paganel 3mo ago
  > enabling domain experts to review in hours what previously took weeks. This is a gold-mine. They need to get sued heavily for this incompetence.
- LPisGood 3mo ago
  Seriously! If I were making a joke I would say something like > Build AI-driven continuous validation frameworks powered by agentic workflows and large language models that autonomously manage… But that’s word for word a 250k+ TC job in the big ‘26.
ibejoeb 3mo ago
Wow: In this role you will: - Design and build agentic AI systems that analyze, generate, and validate... - Build agentic architectures that compose specialized AI agents dynamically... - Build AI-driven continuous validation frameworks powered by agentic workflows and large language models that autonomously manage... This is invoicing? If ever there was a domain that was purely deterministic, you'd hope it was invoicing.
- root-parent 3mo ago
  The irony is, the only purely deterministic thing, will be token consumption...
  - jdiff 3mo ago
    I severely doubt the world ever gets to such a point that the entire world melts into AI hallucination. And token consumption depends on so many other things, it's not all that deterministic either.
    - serf 3mo ago
      (token usage) is trending towards predictability for a lot of reasons. it's not deterministic but it's getting easier to reason about usage.
  - LetsGetTechnicl 3mo ago
    How can a random generator be deterministic?
    - johnbarron 3mo ago
      Truth is, you can never know: https://imgur.com/random-number-generator-bwFWMqQ https://imgur.com/random-number-generator-bwFWMqQ
- londons_explore 3mo ago
  Probably not actually. Transferring one kilobyte across a network link has such a low value that the billing costs of aggregating it cost more than the revenue. So instead you take a probabilistic approach - charge the user for a megabyte of data transfer 0.1% of the time, and bill nothing 99.9% of the time. Now the typical cost is the same, the users bill is probably accurate to the cent, but you have divided the number of billing records by 1000.
blitzar 3mo ago
> 194,400.00 USD annually Fuck it, im in.
- TheOtherHobbes 3mo ago
  Just wait until the same system runs payroll and you're getting paid $1.94400 annually.
  - blitzar 3mo ago
    I will just tell the HR bot that I am meant to be paid 1.944 billion.
    - tmpz22 3mo ago
      And if the HR bot is anything like Facebooks customer support - itll just let you do it!
  - sgarland 3mo ago
    10/10, no notes.
  - O4epegb 3mo ago
    Or alternatively $1.9 billion
- fragmede 3mo ago
  That's base, don't forget bonus and stock.
redbell 3mo ago
IRE which stands for Invoice Reliability Engineer.

sebmellen 3mo ago

That job description feels so far beyond parody that I could scarcely believe it until opening the link! What a world.

root-parent 3mo ago
It gets worst: "Senior Software Development Manager, AWS Global Bill Generation" https://www.amazon.jobs/de/jobs/10471948/senior-software-development-manager-aws-global-bill-generation https://www.amazon.jobs/de/jobs/10471948/senior-software-dev... "We're transforming from monthly batch processing and manual war rooms to continuous billing, autonomous agents, and self-healing infrastructure. We believe operational burden is a technical problem, not a staffing problem" This looks clearly...a staffing problem...
- deleted 3mo ago
  [deleted]
- iam-TJ 3mo ago
  The best bit of that is: > In this role, you will own end-to-end bill run execution across all AWS partitions, drive the technical vision for autonomous billing operations, and build the team that ensures every customer receives an accurate cost estimated in minutes ...
- ghurtado 3mo ago
  > This looks clearly...a staffing problem.. I think that big tech recently decided that I got 99 problems but staffing ain't one I guess Nothing is a staffing problem when you make a rule that firing people is always the solution.
- wbl 3mo ago
  If you can make the software cover the toil you save the staff for the tough cases.
- quickthrowman 3mo ago
  They need to fire whoever is running AP and AP software development. Vibe invoicing is ridiculous for anyone to do, let alone Amazon.
- naiveter 3mo ago
  > This looks clearly...a staffing problem... And if that weren't enough, the "manual war rooms" alone should be setting off alarm bells.
paganel 3mo ago
> enabling domain experts to review in hours what previously took weeks. This is a gold-mine. They need to get sued heavily for this incompetence.
LPisGood 3mo ago
Seriously! If I were making a joke I would say something like > Build AI-driven continuous validation frameworks powered by agentic workflows and large language models that autonomously manage… But that’s word for word a 250k+ TC job in the big ‘26.

ibejoeb 3mo ago

Wow: In this role you will: - Design and build agentic AI systems that analyze, generate, and validate... - Build agentic architectures that compose specialized AI agents dynamically... - Build AI-driven continuous validation frameworks powered by agentic workflows and large language models that autonomously manage... This is invoicing? If ever there was a domain that was purely deterministic, you'd hope it was invoicing.

root-parent 3mo ago
The irony is, the only purely deterministic thing, will be token consumption...
- jdiff 3mo ago
  I severely doubt the world ever gets to such a point that the entire world melts into AI hallucination. And token consumption depends on so many other things, it's not all that deterministic either.
  - serf 3mo ago
    (token usage) is trending towards predictability for a lot of reasons. it's not deterministic but it's getting easier to reason about usage.
- LetsGetTechnicl 3mo ago
  How can a random generator be deterministic?
  - johnbarron 3mo ago
    Truth is, you can never know: https://imgur.com/random-number-generator-bwFWMqQ https://imgur.com/random-number-generator-bwFWMqQ
londons_explore 3mo ago
Probably not actually. Transferring one kilobyte across a network link has such a low value that the billing costs of aggregating it cost more than the revenue. So instead you take a probabilistic approach - charge the user for a megabyte of data transfer 0.1% of the time, and bill nothing 99.9% of the time. Now the typical cost is the same, the users bill is probably accurate to the cent, but you have divided the number of billing records by 1000.

blitzar 3mo ago

> 194,400.00 USD annually Fuck it, im in.

TheOtherHobbes 3mo ago
Just wait until the same system runs payroll and you're getting paid $1.94400 annually.
- blitzar 3mo ago
  I will just tell the HR bot that I am meant to be paid 1.944 billion.
  - tmpz22 3mo ago
    And if the HR bot is anything like Facebooks customer support - itll just let you do it!
- sgarland 3mo ago
  10/10, no notes.
- O4epegb 3mo ago
  Or alternatively $1.9 billion
fragmede 3mo ago
That's base, don't forget bonus and stock.

redbell 3mo ago

IRE which stands for Invoice Reliability Engineer.