DESCRIPTION
The Internet Edge Service (IES) Organization at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is at the forefront of optimizing global internet connectivity for our customers through innovative software solutions. We develop and manage large scale web services that enhance network performance, improve availability, and provide crucial operational visibility and control capabilities across AWS's vast infrastructure.
We're seeking a talented Software Development Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you'll be responsible for building, enhancing, and operating Amazon's internet outbound traffic controller - a critical system that ensures optimal customer experience during high-traffic events such as Thursday Night Football. You'll participate in architecture decisions and design reviews while taking full ownership of platform operations to ensure robust performance at scale. Working alongside both software engineers and network experts, you'll implement best practices to create world-class solutions for our global customer base.
Join our team and experience the satisfaction of building scalable software solutions that provide insights into and help manage one of the world's largest and most sophisticated networks.
Key job responsibilities
- Work backwards from the customer to translate complex functional and technical requirements into software designs.
- Influence your leadership on feature and enhancement prioritization.
- Develop and deliver high-quality improvements and features on time.
- Stay current on technical knowledge to keep pace with rapidly changing technology, and work with the team to bring new technologies on board.
A day in the life
- Collaborate with other Software Engineers and Network Development Engineers to demonstrate and iterate on your solutions.
- Keep a pulse on the current system health, dive deep into customer issues, and provide insights to improve the system's robustness.
- Make code contributions to all aspects of the system - be it alarm definitions, optimization algorithm improvements, or new features.
- Share your knowledge with the IES organization.
About the team
Internet Edge Services (IES) enables optimal connectivity for AWS customers. We build and operate software systems that optimize AWS's global Internet traffic, enhancing network performance and availability while providing operational visibility and control capabilities. Our team provides connectivity solutions for a wide range of use cases, such as retail (amazon.com), video streaming (Prime Video), content delivery (CloudFront), DNS (Route53), AWS services (such as EC2/S3), consumer devices (such as FireTV/Kindle/Echo), and more.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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The base salary for this position ranges from $114,800/year up to $191,800/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.