Software Development Engineer

As a Software Development Engineer, you will oversee the complete software development lifecycle:

• Defining, prioritizing, designing, building, and testing new features.
• Operate an AWS business with globally distributed servers and customers at a massive scale.
• Understand what it takes to grow and operate a global business at our scale.

A day in the life

As a Software Development Engineer, you will problem-solve and innovate in an agile, sometimes ambiguous environment. You will build creative short-term and sustainable long-term solutions with others as passionate as you about this mission. You will use data to make decisions and validate assumptions. You will learn from others and help grow those in your team to achieve their best.

About the team

GCNA-D provides high-performing Internet connectivity for a wide range of use cases, such as retail (amazon.com), video streaming (Prime Video), content delivery (CloudFront), DNS (Route53), AWS services (such as EC2/S3), consumer devices (such as FireTV/Kindle/Echo), and more.

Within AWS Networking, the GCNA-D organization is responsible for connecting Amazon to the global Internet. With connections to thousands of unique external networks in hundreds of locations across the world, our mission is to deliver an Internet connectivity experience that sets the global standard for performance, availability, security, and cost, making Amazon the clear choice for our customers’ needs.

The ideal candidate will share our excitement about cloud computing and will be passionate about delivering high quality services. You will have good knowledge of distributed systems with design and implementation experience, as well as the ability to lead and mentor other engineers. You will be customer centric and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that requires excellent technical and communication skills. You will join a tenured team of Network Development Engineers and Software Development Engineers. This is an opportunity to build a new service utilizing AWS technologies.

We are looking for a candidate who will be comfortable working with a broad range of data sources and solving problems at scale. As a team we proactively support knowledge-sharing and we embrace opportunities to teach company-wide. Since every business at Amazon relies on a network that runs smoothly, the right candidate will guide the business and communicate value, work collaboratively to develop pragmatic yet flexible solutions and move forward in the face ambiguity. The candidate should be willing to build good working relationships within the team and across AWS.

Working at AWS on the GCNA Team, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Content Delivery/Distribution, DNS (Domain Name System), Distributed Computing, Establish Priorities, International Business, Kindle, Leadership, Mentoring, Network Connectivity, Network Operations Center, Problem Solving Skills, Retail, Service Delivery, Software Development, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Software Engineering, Testing, Training/Teaching, Use Cases, Video Streaming, Website Traffic

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Company Size: 10,000 employees or more

Industry: Retail