Software Development Engineer II AWS Hyperplane

Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 HyperPlane Team is looking for engineers to join our growing development teams in Sunnyvale CA.

EC2 HyperPlane is an AWS core service that offers customers incredibly scalable and robust load balancing technology. We support a number of internal service as well as customer facing products such as NAT Gateway Network Load Balancer Private Link and many others. We are now designing and building the next generation systems capable of handling massive amounts of data per day and growing from there. This is a unique opportunity to innovate and build some of the worlds most resilient largescale systems from the ground up.

We innovate frequently and hold ourselves to high standards of service and availability. We ship software frequently get fast feedback from real customers around the globe and see the results of our work come to fruition.

Our team tackles realworld problems that dont generally have readymade solutions. For example how do you ensure customers can scale their application quickly to handle traffic spikes and then back down in a matter of minutes How do you design a load balancing solution that allows customers to quickly and easily achieve the highest levels of fault tolerance using Amazon EC2

Do you want to help design and build a service that is used by millions of customers every day Are you passionate about architecting highly available and largescale services If the answer is yes the HyperPlane team wants to talk with you.

We care about career growth. We work hard to find the right tasks for our engineers so they can continue to grow into more well rounded engineers increase their software engineering skills and give them the opportunity to expand into functional areas they are interested in learning.

Were looking for a teammate who is enthusiastic empathetic curious motivated reliable values the Amazon Leadership Principles and will help us build our positive team culture.


Your daytoday responsibilities will include:
Design and develop APIs new features or enhancements to the service portfolio
Ensure 100 application uptime and minimize service disruptions
Push code using automation and other deployment tools
Document work train your peers and other engineering teams
Respond to and resolve technical emergencies
Build infrastructure to increase the service global footprint


About Us
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee led affinity groups reaching 40000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings and host annual and ongoing learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives learn and be curious and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on worklife balance. It isnt about how many hours you spend at home or at work; its about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to lifelong happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

This position involves oncall responsibilities typically for one week every two months. We dont like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend so we work to ensure that our systems are 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.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a mix of experience levels and tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy oneonone mentoring and thorough but kind code reviews.



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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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.