Software Dev Engineer, EC2 Instance Connectivity

Join the Amazon Web Services EC2 Instance Connectivity development team responsible for connectivity services to AWS EC2 instances. This team owns services that enhance customers observability and troubleshooting by providing a suite of tools to connect to their EC2 instances that adhere to enterprise scaling and security requirements.

Beyond meeting the technical qualifications we seek an engineer who is creative responsible and eager to dig deep into technologies. We need a problem solver who wants to understand business challenges operational issues and software architecture and how the three connect. Were looking for someone excited to learn from others while bringing independent ideas and perspectives and someone who helps make the team productive and enjoyable to work in.


A day in the life
As owners of a critical part of AWS we have a unique mandate to stay up-to-date with industry best practices. We are encouraged to advance our knowledge and understanding with opportunities to attend internal and external conferences access to AWS trainings and regular team and org-wide knowledge sharing sessions.

We prioritize our work towards security and customer experience which includes new feature development and overall reliability of our systems as we scale our systems to support ongoing service growth. Each engineer owns one or more projects and is responsible for the entire software lifecycle from design to development and operations. We meet daily to share progress with each other and discuss obstacles. Throughout the day we communicate frequently and often break out in small groups to work together. We review every piece of each others code and offer feedback and tips to improve.


- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3 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
- 3 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field

- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Experience in software development or experience in Linux and Networking protocols and experience in Linux OS and network troubleshooting
- Experience with server storage networking or large-scale distributed systems
- Experience leading and influencing your team or organization or experience debugging profiling and implementing best software engineering practices in large-scale systems
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team or experience in professional non-internship software development

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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 VA Arlington - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually