Software Dev Engineer, AWS Networking
About the role
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. We're looking for a Software Development Engineer to join the Data Center Network organization. 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.
Key job 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
- Build software services that deploy and scale the Amazon networks supporting AWS, customers, and other business units across multiple global datacenters
- Develop best in class software systems for automating Amazon's network
- Use and develop tools and processes that collect and rationalize data from different sources and frameworks that reduce workloads
- Use data to measure success and take responsibility for the quality of your service; strive to prevent faults from impacting your customers
- Work closely with 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
A day in the life
You will work with customers to gather requirements and generate technical designs, and you will carry the project through all the software lifecycle stages. You'll develop products that enable builders to develop and operate robust, high-quality software and safely, securely, and reliably deploy it. You will use your technical expertise and communication skills to mentor other engineers and provide training and support for our technologies. You will have access to leadership and engineering staff.
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.
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
- 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
Pay
Base salary range: Santa Clara, CA — $165,200.00 – $223,600.00 USD annually; Seattle, WA — $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 and parental leave