Sr Software Development Engineer, Shield (Anti-DDoS)

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.

Join Shield AWSs defense team within Perimeter Protection. We stand at the forefront of protecting AWS infrastructure and millions of customers from sophisticated attacks across the internet. Our mission is critical: safeguard the cloud infrastructure that powers a significant portion of the modern internet.

What Makes This Role Exciting:

Internet-Scale Impact: Process and protect traffic representing a substantial portion of global internet activity. The systems you build will defend some of the worlds most critical infrastructure.

Scaling Challenges: Work on problems that few engineering teams ever encounter. Handle traffic volumes and attack patterns that push the boundaries of distributed systems design.

Creative Problem Solving: Operate in an ambiguous fast-moving space where the threat landscape evolves daily. Your creativity and adaptability will be your greatest assets as you design solutions for attacks that dont exist yet.

High-Stakes Engineering: Balance competing priorities - massive scale rapid iteration effective mitigation - while ensuring customer traffic flows safely and reliably. Every decision matters.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead the design development and operation of internet-scale distributed systems that defend AWS infrastructure and millions of customers from sophisticated DDoS attacks
- Architect and build high-throughput systems that process and protect traffic representing a substantial portion of global internet activity
- Drive technical solutions for scaling challenges that few engineering teams ever encounterhandling traffic volumes and attack patterns at the boundaries of distributed systems design
- Design creative forward-looking mitigations in an ambiguous fast-moving threat landscape where attacks evolve daily and solutions must anticipate what doesnt yet exist
- Own high-stakes engineering decisions that balance massive scale rapid iteration and effective mitigation while ensuring customer traffic flows safely and reliably
- Mentor and raise the bar for engineering excellence across the team through code reviews architecture guidance and technical leadership
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams of software hardware network engineers and security experts to deliver the highest standards of perimeter protection
- Drive operational excellence and reliability for systems defending some of the worlds most critical cloud infrastructure

About the team
AWS Shield is part of AWS Infrastructure Services which 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.

- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 5 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 - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually