Software Dev Engineer, AWS Networking

Are you a developer passionate about building incredible software? Committed to quality, agility, and consistency? Curious how software and AI/ML can operate and maintain one of the world's largest networks? If so, come join us — automate the future of global networks at unprecedented scale, and thrive in a team where your voice matters.

About the role

AWS Infrastructure Services is looking for a Software Development Engineer to join the Data Center Network organization. We're the people who keep the cloud running — owning the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In this role, you'll work with customers, leadership, and peers to automate and invent new ways of operating the AWS network. You'll build best practices, improve operational procedures, and deliver iterative impact with a proactive mindset. You'll collaborate across AWS to deliver the highest standards of safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost. You'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

You'll be responsible for building software services that deploy and scale the Amazon networks supporting AWS, customers, and other business units across multiple global datacenters.

Responsibilities

• Solve complex, ambiguous problems with efficiency and high quality.
• Play a pivotal role in shaping the vision, design, roadmap, and operationalization of customer-facing services — given an outcome and the freedom to chart the direction through data-driven decisions.
• Develop best-in-class software systems for automating Amazon's network.
• Shape the automation future in networking.
• 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, regardless of their source; strive to prevent faults from impacting your customers.
• Work closely with our Network Engineering teams to ensure fast and smooth software roll-outs.
• Identify and troubleshoot recurring platform issues with effective escalation to senior-level engineering teams.
• Learn, design, and build cloud-computing system software for a diverse set of customers.
• Gather requirements, generate technical designs, and carry projects through all software lifecycle stages.
• Develop products that enable builders to develop and operate robust, high-quality software and safely, securely, and reliably deploy it.
• Mentor other engineers and provide training and support for our technologies.

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.
• 2+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• 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.

About the team

The CFE organization focuses on designing cost-effective CLOS topologies, maximizing port availability, and managing the full platform lifecycle—from hardware qualification through decommissioning. CFE also ensures configuration and OS compliance across the fleet, and leads OS promotion, testing, and deployment.

Pay

• USA, CA, Santa Clara: $165,200.00 - $223,600.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Seattle: $143,700.00 - $194,400.00 USD annually

Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and option for Supplemental life plans)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.