Software Development Engineer, EC2 VPC

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design planning delivery and operation of all AWS global 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.

EC2 VPC builds the control and distribution plane that powers networking for every EC2 instance launched worldwide. The team is looking for a software development engineer to design and build highly-available horizontally-scalable services operating across all AWS regions. This position is based in Seattle WA.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and build server-side APIs and asynchronous workflows that operate at EC2 scale across all AWS regions a
- Own services end-to-end: design implementation testing deployment and production monitoring
- Troubleshoot and root-cause customer-impacting issues across distributed systems
- Write and review design documents for new features and system improvements
- Mentor junior engineers through design reviews and code reviews
- Participate in on-call rotations and drive operational improvements to improve availability
- Build and maintain automation tooling to support deployment safety and fleet operations

A day in the life
On a typical day you might root-cause a customer-reported API failure across multiple services whiteboard concurrency design solutions with a senior engineer or pair with a teammate on a tricky debugging session. You own the design code review deployment and production monitoring of everything you build. Youll collaborate with peers and senior engineers on system design mentor junior engineers and raise the bar in code reviews. On-call rotations give you direct exposure to how your services behave in production at EC2 scale. Expect a mix of heads-down coding and collaborative design sessions.

About the team
EC2 VPC builds and operates the control and distribution plane services that powers networking for every EC2 instance launched worldwide. We prioritize availability and invest heavily in deployment safety and monitoring. Engineers have the autonomy to drive technical decisions and own the results. We favor automation over manual work and value clear peer-reviewed documentation for our technical decisions.

- 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
- 2 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 2 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 2 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually