In this role, you will drive the technical direction and architecture of our software controllers that optimize hundreds of terabits of traffic leaving AWS. You will lead architecture decisions and design reviews, take ownership of platform operations at scale, and mentor engineers to raise the engineering bar. You will collaborate with both software and network experts, embodying best practices to create best-in-class solutions for our customers worldwide.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of software systems end-to-end, from architecture through production, particularly traffic optimization and network control plane systems.
- Leverage strong knowledge in data structures, algorithms, optimization, and complexity analysis to solve hard problems at global scale.
- Define and raise engineering standards across the team - code quality, operational readiness, testing patterns, and documentation.
- Communicate with other technical teams and management to collect requirements, describe software functionality, and build technical designs.
- Mentor engineers and raise the hiring bar - grow the people around you and cultivate a culture of engineering excellence.
- Influence technical strategy and investment decisions, partnering with principal engineers and leadership to shape where we invest next.
- Own the operational excellence of critical systems, setting the standard for monitoring, alarming, and incident response.
A day in the life
- Lead design and code review sessions - writing and reviewing critical-path code, providing architectural guidance to the team.
- Spend uninterrupted time writing code and prototyping solutions.
- Meet with customers and other stakeholders to discuss their needs from our platforms, and help integrate their input into our plan.
- Collect metrics and telemetry data to characterize the performance of our platform and identify improvement opportunities.
- Write up design proposals for new features and drive collaborative review across the team.
- Mentor team members through pairing, design discussions, and code reviews.
About the team
This opportunity exists within the AWS Internet Edge Services organization, where we build (SDN) software controllers which operate the network. This is a unique opportunity to build and innovate on one of the world's largest networks that delivers hundreds of terabits of traffic each day for our customers.
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
- 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ 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
The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.
CAN, BC, Vancouver - 150,700.00 - 251,700.00 CAD annually
