Senior Software Development Engineer, Internet Edge Services

Are you passionate about building globally distibuted software to that operates at AWSs internet edge and beyond Amazon Web Services Internet Edge Services organization is reimagining how the internets edge operates through innovative software solutions. As a Software Development Engineer III youll work on AWSs global network to build and operate global decision-making traffic optimization solutions unlock new use cases and deliver network experiences that delight our customers.

Youll tackle ambiguous cross org problems where the business direction is understood but the technology strategy needs to be defined. This role combines hands-on development with technical leadership where youll design systems mentor engineers and drive consensus across teams while balancing constraints and focusing on future extension. Your work will shape long-term solutions that operate at massive scale across AWSs global infrastructure.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable software systems demonstrating best practices that others emulate while balancing speed of delivery and foundation for the future
- Lead technical direction and architecture decisions for complex multi-engineer projects providing system-wide view and design guidance while ensuring solutions fit into the bigger picture
- Drive cross-functional collaboration across teams and organizations to align on goals and deliver results
- Mentor and coach engineers through technical guidance code reviews and career development actively driving adoption of engineering best practices on your team
- Solve complex problems with multiple risks and roadblocks using solutions that are as simple as possible working to clearly understand problems before moving to solutions and making technical trade-offs between short and long-term needs

A day in the life
As a Software Development Engineer III youll split your time between hands-on coding and leading technical direction for your team. Day-to-day youre designing systems reviewing architectures unblocking engineers and writing narratives to align stakeholders including senior leadership. You own ambiguous cross-cutting problems end-to-end: figuring out what to build driving consensus when people disagree making trade-off calls and mentoring junior developers along the way.

About the team
The Internet Edge Services organization at Amazon Web Services is at the forefront of optimizing global internet connectivity for our customers through innovative software solutions. We are on a bold mission to reimagine how the internets edge operates at planetary scale building the Border Network of the future.

This kind of platform unlocks capabilities that simply werent possible before. Our team values continuous learning knowledge sharing and mentorship creating an environment where engineers can grow and take on increasingly complex challenges while delivering reliable secure and scalable systems that our customers depend on.

- 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

- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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