The AWS Networking organization is hiring, and we're looking for talented Software Development Engineers (SDE) to join our team. Within Networking, we're confronting and solving complex and high-stake challenges. Our teams support the design of connectivity between the hundreds of AWS location and thousands of services. As a member of the Backbone Engineering team, you will play a part in designing and architecting software feeding Network Engineers with critical information about AWS Backbone network performance.
This position is part of the Backbone organization where the team is responsible for building solutions that increase the scale, efficiency and resiliency of the AWS Backbone.
Ever wonder how Amazon manages the capacity of thousands of network links? How Amazon offers a highly available and scalable network? Engineers on this team collaborate with various teams to automate capacity allocation of AWS services workloads into the network. Engineers on this team make day-to-day and strategic decisions that carry a huge amount of responsibility and impact.
We strive to have a collaborative environment that impacts products and software across the company.
We use AWS technologies like: DynamoDB, SWF, S3, EC2, API Gateway, Lambda, ELB, RDS, and Athena
We are one of the many teams ensuring Amazon's network maintains 100% uptime
We are spread across Seattle, Dublin and Sydney
Our work has a direct impact on internal and external customers
We own and operate the infrastructure required to serve our customers
Key job responsibilities
Engineers build software and deploy products that enable the backbone to be utilized as an efficient service by our customers. Our customers utilize our services to visualize the performance of AWS Backbone network that crosses the entire plant, identify where in the real-world availability risk and congestion occur to plan and act to protect the network.
• Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
• Write high quality distributed system software
• Enjoy seeing the impact of your work has on customers.
• Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.
• Take ownership and do what it takes to get the job done.
• Learn from others and help grow those in your team to achieve their best.
About the team
We are a group of engineers that value diverse perspectives, collaborate freely, and believe we should help each other succeed (and fail) as a team. We love to learn and take ownership for our work, and we think you probably do too. As a member of our team, you will have opportunities to stretch your skills, whether that means resolving deep algorithmic knots in our backend services or designing a better user experience for our technical users. The various technical and functional partnership gives us the opportunity to extend our knowledges, individual skills and collective ownership.
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
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ 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
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- 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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
The base salary range for this position is listed below. 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. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, MN, Minneapolis - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
