Senior Software Development Engineer - AWS, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) Networking

The AWS Networking organization is looking for a Software Development Engineer to join our Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) Networking team. As a Software Development Engineer on our team you will define the technical architecture and build systems that manage mission-critical networks with high availability and low operational overhead. You will work closely with internal and external software development teams to develop new products such as automated switch provisioning automated event detection and continuous workflow testing that improve the security and availability of our networks.

ADC Networking owns the entire lifecycle - design build deployment scaling sustaining engineering and operations - of our networks connecting between and within the data centers for a dedicated customer region interconnections to customer networks and the solutions that enable remote access to these regions from secure operations facilities. You will develop evolve and optimize these systems to help protect our customers and provide an improved experience.

Successful candidates have experience building highly distributed mission-critical systems are self-directed and love to work on challenging and complex problems. You are a passionate coder who values simplicity of implementation leading to highly maintainable code that is well documented and easy to follow. Experience with computer networking concepts is preferred.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. citizen and obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI with a polygraph. The position further requires the candidate to opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

Key job responsibilities
You will influence the direction of our technology and software development to continually deliver new capabilities that meet the needs of our customers worldwide. Your experience leading software development projects will help us implement automated solutions across a variety of applications and systems.

You will:
- Lead projects to disambiguate and solve challenging distributed systems problems on a global scale.
- Develop best in class software systems for automating Amazons network.
- Be responsible for the design implementation and quality of services you deliver.
- Learn design and build cloud-computing systems for a diverse set of customers and contribute to documentation of process and procedures.
- Use and develop tools and processes that collect & rationalize data from different sources and frameworks to reduce workloads.
- Use data to measure success and take responsibility for the quality of your service and regardless of their source; Strive to prevent faults from impacting your customers.
- Be a leader on an agile team independently drive challenging projects and milestones to completion.
- Work closely with our Network Engineering teams to ensure fast and smooth software roll-outs and design and recommend optimization for service delivery and fleets.

A day in the life
You will be a technical leader on a team that shapes the automation future in networking. You will lead development of new key services and partner with stakeholders across the organization to improve networking security and availability posture in ADC Regions. You will play a leading role by interacting with customers gathering requirements then influencing how we design develop build deploy and support new features and functionality.

You will collaborate with Senior Engineers with deep knowledge in network architecture. You will have the opportunity expand your horizons mentoring engineers across the organization and expanding your influence as a technical leader. With an open-minded team such as ours you will have an eager-to-learn unit of peers with whom you get to grow mutually.

About the team
AWS ADC Networking (Amazon Dedicated Cloud) owns datacenter network services that provide unconstrained connectivity to dedicated US Government customers. They own the networks end to end including scaling design and operational functions.

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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.

Why AWS
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Diverse Experiences
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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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship and Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

- 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
- Experience leading and influencing your team or organization
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with distributed systems at scale

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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.