Software Development Engineer Route 53

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design planning delivery and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words were 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 were looking for talented people who want to help.

Youll join a diverse team of software hardware and network engineers supply chain specialists security experts operations managers and other vital roles. Youll 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 youll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Amazon Route 53s Health Checks team is hiring!

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) service offered by Amazon Web Services. Our team owns Route 53 Health Checks a highly available endpoint monitoring service. Every few seconds our service checks the health of millions of computers all around the world to help Route 53 DNS Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Amazon RDS Amazon S3 and many other AWS services maintain high availability for their customers.

This is a highly technical backend position working on our distributed health checking infrastructure and public API. Our service runs primarily on a Java and Linuxbased stack with lots of interaction with different public AWS services and Amazoninternal tools. Each member of our team brings a different technical background to the table but we all enjoy using our knowledge and insights to make things easier for our customers. We dont expect you to be an expert in or necessarily even be familiar with all of the languages and technologies we use but we do expect you to be excited to learn about them!

Our team is responsible for operating as well as developing our service and this position will involve oncall responsibilities. We rotate this responsibility between all our team members; in the past this has meant being available on nights and weekends about once every two months. We dont like getting paged so we work to ensure that our systems are well built well tested and fault tolerant. When we do get paged we work together to resolve the root cause so that we dont get paged for the same issue twice.

We are a good mix of new and experienced engineers and enjoy helping each other grow through oneonone mentoring and thorough but supportive code reviews. We care about your career growth and try to assign projects and tasks based on what will help each team member develop into a more wellrounded engineer and take on more complex tasks in the future. Experimentation is encouraged and we are always looking for new ideas to improve our internal processes and make the the service better for our customers.

Were looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic empathetic curious motivated and reliable; someone who will help us build on the positive team culture weve been cultivating.


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3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

3 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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.