About the position
The AWS Networking organization is looking for a Software Development Engineer to join our Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) Networking team. As a Software Development Engineer on our team, you will build systems that manage mission-critical networks with high availability and low operational overhead. You will work closely with internal and external software development teams to develop new products such as automated switch provisioning, automated event detection, and continuous workflow testing that improve the security and availability of our networks. ADC Networking owns the entire lifecycle - design, build, deployment, scaling, sustaining engineering, and operations - of our networks connecting between and within the data centers for a dedicated customer region, interconnections to customer networks, and the solutions that enable remote access to these regions from secure operations facilities. You will develop, evolve, and optimize these systems, to help protect our customers and provide an improved experience. Successful candidates have experience building highly distributed mission-critical systems, are self-directed, and love to work on challenging and complex problems. You are a passionate coder, who values simplicity of implementation leading to highly maintainable code that is well documented and easy to follow. Experience with computer networking concepts is preferred. This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. citizen and obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI with a polygraph.
Responsibilities
- Drive software development initiatives to continually deliver new capabilities that meet the needs of our customers worldwide.
- Lead projects to disambiguate and solve challenging distributed systems problems on a global scale.
- Develop best in class software systems for automating Amazon's network.
- Be responsible for the design, implementation, and quality of services you deliver.
- Learn, design, and build cloud-computing systems for a diverse set of customers and contribute to documentation of process and procedures.
- Use and develop tools and processes that collect & rationalize data from different sources and frameworks to reduce workloads.
- Use data to measure success and take responsibility for the quality of your service and, regardless of their source; strive to prevent faults from impacting your customers.
- Be a leader on an agile team, independently drive challenging projects and milestones to completion.
- Work closely with our Network Engineering teams to ensure fast and smooth software roll-outs and design and recommend optimization for service delivery and fleets.
Requirements
- 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
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience in mentoring or leading more junior engineers
Nice-to-haves
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience building distributed systems at scale
Benefits
- 401k
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