Software Development Engineer II, Internet Edge Services

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.

Amazons network is a key differentiator for Amazon Web Services (AWS) enabling the global operation of thousands of applications on millions of servers worldwide. The AWS Networking team develops and operates the global network platform for all of Amazon superseding a network that originally evolved using industry-standard technologies and designs. Our teams support all aspects of connectivity between Amazon and the outside world as well as connectivity between Amazons data centers and services.

In this role you will contribute in the development of Condors control plane the critical system that delivers network state to packet processors at Amazons edge. You will participate in architecture decisions and design reviews as well as take ownership ensuring our platform operates at scale. You will collaborate with both software and network experts embodying best practices to create best-in-class solutions for our customers worldwide!

Key job responsibilities
- Develop software systems and successfully deliver them to customers particularly control plane for next generation software defined network
- Leverage strong knowledge in data path optimization data structures algorithms problem solving and complexity analysis to implement software features and functionality
- Use best practices to execute across the full development lifecycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes test automation and operations
- Communicate with other technical teams and management to collect requirements describe software functionality and build technical designs

A day in the life
This opportunity exists within the AWS Internet Edge team where we build software-defined networking (SDN) controllers that operate the network. As part of a new multi-year initiative we are building a control plane distribution system that will synchronize network state across thousands of packet processors at the edge. Youll work with software and network engineers to ensure that configuration changes and dynamic routing updates propagate to forwarding hardware in sub-second timeframes enabling customers to run demanding workloads at scale. This is a unique opportunity to architect and innovate on one of the worlds largest networks that delivers terabits of traffic each day for our customers.

During a typical work day you will:
- Join our daily team standup to sync up on current tasks
- Spend uninterrupted time writing code
- Meet with customers and other stakeholders to discuss their needs from our platforms and help integrate their input into our plan
- Collect metrics and telemetry data to characterize the performance of our platform
- Write up a design proposal of a new feature for collaborative review

About the team
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- 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
- Experience in computer architecture

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

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Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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