Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Networking, Direct Connect Routing Plane

About the role

The Routing Plane team within AWS Direct Connect is searching for a Senior Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate the critical routing and metering systems that underpin the Direct Connect service.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate distributed systems for BGP route management (BgpSpeaker), traffic metering, and route services at scale across all AWS commercial, GovCloud, and classified regions
• Own the architecture and evolution of critical data-plane and control-plane components, ensuring high availability, correctness, and performance
• Lead technical design reviews and produce design documents for complex, ambiguous problems spanning multiple services
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design guidance, and career development support
• Collaborate with partner teams to deliver cross-cutting features and resolve complex operational issues
• Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response for Sev-2 and above events
• Influence team roadmap and technical strategy through data-driven proposals to leadership

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team