Amazon’s network is a key differentiator for Amazon Web Services (AWS), enabling the global operation of thousands of applications on millions of servers worldwide. The AWS Networking team develops and operates the global network platform for all of Amazon, superseding a network that originally evolved using industry-standard technologies and designs. Our teams support all aspects of connectivity between Amazon and the outside world, as well as connectivity between Amazon’s data centers and services.
Within AWS Networking is the Internet Edge Services (IES) organisation which enables optimal connectivity for AWS customers via software. We build and operate web services that optimize AWS's global Internet traffic, enhancing network performance and availability while providing operational visibility and control capabilities. We work on the most challenging problems and are looking for talented people to join our team.
As a senior software development engineer, you will build and enhance our software controllers that optimizes hundreds of terabits of traffic entering or leaving AWS. You will participate in architecture decisions and design reviews, as well as take ownership ensuring our combined platform operates at scale. You will collaborate with both software and network experts, embodying best practices to create best-in-class solutions for our customers worldwide.
You’ll get to join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite fault free 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.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software
- Investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility
- Write high quality distributed system software and perform peer code-reviews
- Perform development and maintenance of key system features
- Drive best practices and engineering excellence
- Provide technical direction to the team and identify areas of focus
- Establish architectural principles, selecting design patterns and mentoring team members on their appropriate application
- Create and review software design documentation and mentor junior engineers
- Create and review documentation and process regarding recurring issues, new standard operating procedures, knowledge transfer material, etc
A day in the life
During a typical work day you will:
- Join our daily team standup to sync up on current tasks
- Spend uninterrupted time writing code
- 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
- Write up a design proposal of a new feature for collaborative review
- Mentor and develop other builders in the team
About the team
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.
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
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AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
Mentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
One of the keys to AWS’s success is its top-tier collaborative culture. You will be working closely with a talented team of managers and engineers that will push your technical abilities while you bring new innovations to widely adopted and fast growing services.
Amazon offers an equitable salary package that includes shares, sign-on bonus, and a host of benefits. You will be encouraged and rewarded for doing what is right for the long-term success of the customer. We value your passion to discover, invent and build for the customer.
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years relevant experience in software development
- Experience working with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, and object-oriented software design in Linux/Unix environments
- Proficiency with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Python, Typescript, Javascript, Rust, Scala, or C++- Knowledge of best practices for the full software development life cycle; including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Track record of designing and building complex software systems and successfully delivering them to customers
- Exposure to architecting and designing large-scale distributed systems (e.g. SQL/NoSQL, scalability and fault-tolerance)
Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
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