Software Development Engineer, AWS Direct Connect

Software Development Engineer, AWS Direct Connect

Job ID: 2768094 | Amazon Data Services, Inc.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

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.

Are you interested in creating highly available distributed systems at a uniquely large scale?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect is looking for a highly skilled software developer to join our team in Northern Virginia. The AWS Direct Connect team delivers solutions that make it easy for customers to establish a dedicated network connection from their premises to the AWS cloud. These connections help to reduce network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections. AWS Direct Connect is currently available in more than 100 locations located in 28 countries.

This position will be responsible for designing systems, developing software, and supporting the next generation of the AWS Direct Connect service architecture.

The opportunity:

This position will be part of our team in the Herndon, VA office. The team builds and maintains the software for customers to route between their On-Premise networks and their AWS VPCs. As an early contributor to our new architecture, you will have opportunities to shape how the system works. We code in Kotlin, Go, Python, and more to create distributed computing solutions for our service. Our innovative systems include high efficient and large scale platforms built on Amazon's AWS cloud computing infrastructure. Our engineers work to create Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions which support our customers unique scaling and availability needs. Our components create our customer’s route tables and propagate them throughout AWS’s data plane and control plane. We operate at very large scale on critical customer workloads, so a passion for operational excellence is essential. Candidates must be comfortable working within a fast-moving environment and be eager to embrace ownership and accountability.

Key job responsibilities

This position on the Direct Connect team will be designing and developing new SDN solutions for our customers. You'll be coming in on the ground floor as we build these exciting new services for our enterprise customers to grow their hybrid cloud solutions tailored to their specific network needs and ensuring durability, resiliency, speed and high availability.

Responsibilities:

1. Build new features that support AWS Direct Connect and our partner teams in AWS networking
2. Design and implement long-term architectures for AWS Direct Connect
3. Focus on impactful changes that will improve customer experience
4. Development and operate scalable, low-latency, high-availability services
5. Own and continuously improve the team’s software stack
6. Drive innovation on behalf of our customers
7. Execute against project plans and delivery commitments

A day in the life

Our engineers develop high performance, highly available software which handles routing for our customers. We design, build infrastructure, write code, test, deploy, monitor, and solve problems. Any given day you may be writing code to implement new features, designing our software architecture to create reliable systems, learning about new networking concepts so we can better serve our customers. We have lots of opportunity to influence the product and architecture.

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. We are able to train you on the networking knowledge you need to become an expert in the field.

Why AWS?

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.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & 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.

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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2. 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
3. Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
2. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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