Software Development Engineer II, AWS Throttling

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.

Come and join AWS Traffic Engineering! Were a new team building out tools that will give anyone building services within AWS to manage throughput and protect their service from downtime due to excessive load.

Were looking for software developers to solve real world problems on a global scale own their systems end-to-end and influence the direction of our technology that impacts hundreds of millions customers around the world.

At Amazon an SDE can expect to design flexible and scalable solutions and work on some of the most complex challenges in large-scale computing by utilizing your skills in data structures algorithms and object oriented programming. Joining AWS Traffic Engineering offers you the opportunity to work on a small diverse development team building secure reliable and scalable features that help AWS services to be more resilient.

You will have the opportunity to drive mission critical projects work with senior and principal engineers and mentor junior level developers. You will get in on the ground floor of building throttling software systems that are core to the operation of AWS!

Position Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with teams of engineers in the design implementation and deployment of successful internet-scale systems and services.
- Functionally decompose complex problems into simple straight-forward solutions.
- Understand system interdependencies and limitations.
- Share your knowledge of the most effective performance scalability architecture and engineering patterns and methods.

Key job responsibilities
Design software solutions to enable new features or improve software. You may still require guidance from your teams leadership to ensure your designs are in alignment with your teams long-term architectural strategy.
Effectively make priority tradeoffs between new feature development and operational work.
Work on difficult problems with visible risks or roadblocks. You bring clarity to problems and identify simple designs for solutions.
Act as a significant contributor to the full software development lifecycle including scoping design code testing deployment and maintenance of the teams software.
Demonstrate operational excellence in all of your work.
Provide operational support for your team and ensure that the root causes of operational issues are identified and resolved. You dont settle for the status quo and routinely identify and execute on opportunities to improve your teams operations.
Participate in the code review process on your team providing meaningful feedback to others including those who are more senior.

About the team
AWS Throttling provides a highly scalable throttling solution to AWS teams. It is made up of 2 areas with their respective teams the control plane and the data plane. The AWS Throttling Control Plane team owns the service stack that our customers use to configure deploy and analyze throttling rules that the AWS Throttling Data Plane enforces those rules. The Control Plane is made up of a service layer and a console.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship 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 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.