Software Development Engineer, AWS Network Firewall Proxy

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.

AWS Network Firewall Proxy team is looking for a Software Development Engineer for a critical part of its service that will deliver a Proxy solution a service that offers centralized security controls to avert data leak threats. This teams owns the external facing NFW Proxy ( This is a balanced team of senior and junior engineers that has proven it can deliver very important features for our customers.

This engineer will work on a key part of the service setting the team culture best practices mentoring and delivering on the product roadmap. The successful candidate will be comfortable dealing with ambiguity be very customer-centric and able to think big!

The ideal candidate will be passionate about the potential of cloud computing as well as about building great resilient scalable and high-performance distributed services. This candidate has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a rapid growth environment exhibiting abilities to prioritize well communicate clearly and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence with a strong team. This person has a proven track record of building a culture centered on customer focus efficient execution high quality rigorous testing deep monitoring and solid deployment practices. AWS in general and this business in particular operates at very large scale and on critical workloads so a passion and discipline around operational excellence is key. A high level of ownership and accountability is a must.

This is a rare opportunity for an experienced Amazonian to join a team that is in a critical and visible area. The team owns external facing NFW Proxy ( proxy will allow customers to have visibility into and exert control over all internet-bound activities. It will decrypt traffic to offer thorough visibility along with authentication and destination filtering capabilities to ensure that you dont have unauthenticated or compromised workloads in your environment trying to leak data to untrusted destinations.

With a balanced team of junior and senior engineers and a healthy operational load this team needs your help to balance the challenges of growing the team providing operational and technical guidance and mentoring and delivering amazing features. Its a fun team with an exciting future -- come work hard play hard and change the world!



Key job responsibilities
AWS Network Firewall protects customer workloads from network threats. As an SDE II on the Proxy team you will build and scale the core proxy infrastructure that inspects billions of packets daily across AWS regions.

What Youll Do:
- Design and implement high-performance proxy services that process customer traffic at scale
- Build distributed systems that deliver sub-millisecond latency while maintaining security
- Optimize packet processing pipelines to handle increasing traffic volumes
- Collaborate with security teams to implement new threat detection capabilities
- Participate in on-call rotation to ensure service availability
What Were Looking For:
- 3 years of professional software development experience
- Strong programming skills in Java C or Rust
- Experience building distributed systems or network services
- Understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP TLS HTTP)
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

About the team
The AWS Network Firewall Proxy team builds and operates the core proxy infrastructure that protects customer workloads from network threats. The team designs high-performance distributed systems that inspect billions of packets daily across AWS regions delivering sub-millisecond latency while maintaining security. Engineers on this team solve complex challenges in packet processing threat detection and scalability. The proxy service processes customer traffic in real-time blocking malicious activity before it reaches applications. This teams work directly impacts AWS customers security posture enabling them to run workloads safely in the cloud. The team collaborates closely with security researchers network engineers and service teams across AWS.

- 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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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