About This Role
Designing, developing, and operating the software systems that power the world's largest cloud network is the core of this engineering role. You will play a key part in developing the tools, automation, and data infrastructure that keep AWS network interconnects running at peak performance. This role suits a software development engineer with strong skills and a passion for building scalable, reliable systems that directly impact network availability for AWS customers.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy, and operate software systems that enable the NPD Interconnects team to monitor, qualify, and manage interconnect products across the AWS fleet
- Develop and maintain automated test frameworks and tooling that enable product engineers to validate optical transceivers and fiber connectivity products, scaling test infrastructure to support increasing qualification demands
- Build and maintain data ingestion, processing, and storage systems for optics and fiber telemetry data, enabling product owners to conduct fleet-wide analysis through self-service tooling and dashboards
- Design and deliver distributed systems that orchestrate link-level testing, validation, and troubleshooting workflows across AWS regions, ensuring resilience and scalability
- Collaborate with Applied Scientists to build ML/science model serving infrastructure, operationalizing models that optimize fleet performance and predict failures
- Independently clarify requirements and deliver system-level solutions for technically complex or operationally ambiguous problems, with guidance from senior engineers on architectural direction
- Participate in on-call rotation, lead troubleshooting of production issues, and drive resolution for both individual and large-scale fleet events
- Automate and simplify team operations processes, improving service resilience and performance
- Produce high-quality, well-tested code, actively participate in code reviews, and mentor newer team members to raise the engineering bar
- Communicate effectively about technical work, document system architecture and operations, and collaborate across team boundaries to deliver features in services owned by other organizations
Requirements
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ 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
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Nice to have:
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Benefits
- Sign-on payments
- Restricted stock units (RSUs)
- 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
- Parental leave
Important Details
- Locations: USA, CA, Cupertino
About the Company
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. They support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. They pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating, with customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trusting their suite of products and services. Within AWS Networking, the NPD (Network Product Development) organization is responsible for designing hardware, building software, and owning the interconnects for the routers that power the global AWS network.
