Does working on global scale high performance distributed systems and packet processors excite you? We are a core team in AWS EC2 Networking organization, creating and enhancing critical services that form the foundation of the AWS VPC. Our mission is provide the thinnest possible layer at the edge of the AWS network to deliver a superior customer experience for packet processing. As a Software Development Engineer, you will be responsible for influencing and shaping the direction of our services. You will define, plan, and execute on deliverables that delight internal and external customers alike. We operate at global scale and enable customers to build high availability systems world-wide, so a passion and discipline around operational excellence is paramount.
With the extensive network and access to Sr., Principal, Sr. Principal and Distinguished Engineers across EC2, AWS and Amazon, there are many stretch opportunities to grow your skills and knowledge.
As a tier zero Amazon service our solutions have to be scalable, efficient, and fault tolerant. You will be responsible for influencing and shaping the direction of our services. You will help design, plan, and execute on new features as well as existing services, with a unique emphasis on security. We operate at global scale and enable customers to build highly available systems, world-wide.
A successful candidate will bring deep technical background, an enthusiasm to learn, and a desire to have an broad impact with their deliveries.
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.
Key job responsibilities
A Software Development Engineer on the team is expected to operate autonomously, deliver projects that have scope at the team level and are starting to interact with other teams. While they are capable of independently designing, developing, and testing software components, they are expected to seek input from more senior engineers through regular reviews. They seek guidance from their manager, Sr. Engineers, or Principal Engineers when facing difficult trade-off decisions. They mentor new team members on how the team's services are constructed and operate. They help guide and influence the team by providing feedback during code reviews and operations reviews and they influence their manager by contributing during backlog reviews and planning meetings. They solve difficult technical problems that require understanding the team's software and weigh trade-offs to deliver solutions that are logical, testable and maintainable.
A day in the life
A typical day for this role will include driving designs for components and services that deliver new features and capabilities, reviewing code of other members on the team, writing complex code, performing root cause analysis on operational events, providing project updates to leadership and other team members and developing estimates for upcoming deliverables.
This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don't like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don't get paged for the same issue twice.
About the team
We build and maintain mission-critical, high-scale networking systems powering AWS Virtual Private Cloud for the EC2 Gateway Networking team. Our team combines hard work with fun weekly happy hours, solving problems together to delight customers.
Our team actively supports new members through knowledge-sharing and mentorship. We have diverse experience levels, and senior engineers provide one-on-one mentoring and thorough, kind code reviews. We prioritize your career growth by assigning projects that develop your engineering expertise, empowering you to tackle increasingly complex tasks.