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.

Software Developer Amazon Web Services Herndon VA
Amazon Web Services (Route 53 is expanding our presence within the Herndon VA area due to explosive growth! We currently have an opening for mid to senior level Software Developers. Please submit a resume for consideration via our career site portal.

At Amazon Web Services we like to work backwards: start by understanding what customers need and using that to guide our software engineering. Were looking for a software engineer who is experienced in listening to customers synthesizing their needs and rapidly iterating our services to quickly put features into customers hands. Our best ideas become even better when we get feedback from real customer use. The sooner we can get that feedback the more quickly we can grow.

This position will be part of the Amazon Route 53 team in the Herndon VA office. Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) service offered by Amazon Web Services. We operate in over 50 locations worldwide and provide advanced functionality such as latencybased routing (LBR) Private DNS Geo DNS routing DNS failover and integration with a plethora of AWS services. On top of that we offer fast change propagation with a 100 availability SLA. Our service is quickly growing and were expanding in multiple directions: adding new features and functionality to our DNS services better traffic management new AWS integrations improving our health check capabilities and expanding with new services in the naming and routing space.

We work on deep technical problems that span a variety of core topics in computer science ranging from databases to networking to distributed systems to numerical analysis to security. We are looking for a developer who will lead the team and who feels strongly not only about building good software but also about running that software in the real world.

Amazon in a fastpaced environment where we Work Hard Have Fun Make History. On a typical day software engineers might whip up a prototype to prove an idea instrument code to report a new metric talk with customers code up a feature or draft a proposal for a radical new idea.

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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

Experience developing software in multiple languages like Java Golang etc. Prior experience with Kubernetes Containerization and distributed systems development is highly preferred.

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