Amazon Web Services (AWS), BGP, Billing, Building Systems, Career Counseling, Cloud Computing, Code Reviews, Collocation, Computer Engineering, Cost Control, Design Document, Direct Advertising, Distributed Computing, High Availability, Incident Response, Leadership, Mentoring, Network Architecture/Engineering, Network Connectivity, Network Operations Center, Network Routing, On Call, Operational Improvement, Operations Management, Problem Solving Skills, Production Systems, Reconciliation, Retail, Safety Standards, Software Design, Software Development, Software Engineering, Supply Chain, System Operations, Technical Leadership, Technical Strategy, Technical/Engineering Design
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're 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 we're looking for talented people who want to help.
You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll 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 you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
AWS Direct Connect enables customers to bypass the public internet and connect directly to AWS over dedicated connections, providing reduced networking costs, increased throughput, and certainty that data travels over AWS network paths. With deployments in 110+ colocation facilities across 72 cities in 31 countries, Direct Connect serves 65,000+ active accounts and is relied upon by 40+ internal service teams including Amazon Retail.
The Routing Plane team within AWS Direct Connect is searching for a Senior Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate the critical routing and metering systems that underpin the Direct Connect service. As a senior engineer on our team, you will drive the development of distributed systems responsible for BGP route management, traffic metering, and route reconciliation at massive scale. You will design components that ensure reliable route advertisement, accurate billing, and network correctness across all AWS regions. You will influence technical strategy, mentor engineers, and raise the bar on operational excellence for systems that directly impact customer connectivity and revenue.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, develop, and operate distributed systems for BGP route management (BgpSpeaker), traffic metering, and route services at scale across all AWS commercial, GovCloud, and classified regions
- Own the architecture and evolution of critical data-plane and control-plane components, ensuring high availability, correctness, and performance
- Lead technical design reviews and produce design documents for complex, ambiguous problems spanning multiple services
- Drive operational excellence by improving monitoring, alarming, and automated remediation for production systems
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design guidance, and career development support
- Collaborate with partner teams to deliver cross-cutting features and resolve complex operational issues
- Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response for Sev-2 and above events
- Influence team roadmap and technical strategy through data-driven proposals to leadership
About the team
The Routing Plane team is part of the AWS Direct Connect software organization. We own and operate the systems responsible for Metering, BgpSpeaker, and RouteService - the backbone of how Direct Connect advertises routes, meters customer traffic for billing, and ensures routing correctness across the global AWS network.
Our systems operate at the intersection of networking and distributed systems, processing millions of route updates and metering events daily. We work closely with network engineering, other DX software teams, and AWS infrastructure teams to deliver a reliable, scalable service that enterprise customers depend on for their most critical workloads.
We are a small, high-impact team based in Northern Virginia where every engineer has significant ownership and influence. We value operational excellence, technical depth, and a bias for action. We believe in building systems that are correct by design, observable by default, and resilient under failure.
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