Software Development Engineer, Amazon

• This role may be for you if you are passionate about autonomous software systems that transform the way networks are built and operated
• You build high quality, highly available, always-on services
• You're happiest when you're working with empowered, world-class leaders and engineers to meet world-class challenges
• Finally, with your curiosity and strong ownership bias, you have an infectious desire to continually improve how things are done
• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Desirable

• You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles
• You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers
• And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion
• We are currently looking for a software development engineer to help us deliver the future of software control systems at the core of our global network
• Engineers will build software that controls traffic on AWS Backbone 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
• Work in a 24x7 team on call rotation, with ability to drive into workplace for critical events/needs
• Manage customers during problem resolution and operating efficiently under pressure
• Sit at the computer during scheduled work hours with appropriate breaks while maintaining a high level of alertness and attention to detail
• Travel to data center/network sites and Amazon/customer offices as needed
• Do what nobody else in the world is doing… literally
• Gain world class knowledge and expertise on the inner workings of the Internet
• Define and design the next generation of Amazon’s Software Defined Network (SDN) controllers
• Create, enhance, and run scalable autonomous controller services that observe the state of the network, make active decisions to optimize traffic based on programmable business logic
• Collaborate with and learn from world leaders in distributed systems development and operations
• Gain practical experience building incredible software using Amazon Web Services