About this role
Do you like to use network and Unix systems engineering to deliver simple, sustainable, and repeatable solutions? Would you like to play a key role in driving the stability and sustainability of next-generation IP networks? 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 impacting variables 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.
The Core Networking team is looking for a Network Development Engineer to join our Network Fabric Engineering (NFE) team. As a Software Development Engineer, you will be responsible for building, deploying and scaling the services that support AWS, customers, and other business units, across multiple global datacenters. AWS Core Networking is focused on building Data Centers and the network that allows Data Centers to function efficiently. We own the solutions that allow racks to be aggregated and Data Centers to be interconnected. Core Networking's goal is to balance efficiency, performance and reliability to allow customers access to their applications and data.
Key job responsibilities
- Owning multiple services and features, architecting them to scale with robust unit tests and metrics
- Understanding customer needs by working with external and internal stakeholders and translating it to software requirements and execution plans
- Delivering quality features on-time and on-budget and executing against project plans and delivery commitments.
- Manage your day-to-day development activities, participate in designs, design review, code review, and implementation.
- Mentoring and guiding junior engineers towards good software development techniques
- Maintaining current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology, always on a look out for new technologies and work with the team in bringing in new technologies.
A day in the life
You will architect, design, implement, test, and deploy new features to improve scale and availability of the network You will look for continuous improvement to reduce the cost of operating the network You will exercise the highest bar for security in both code and operations. You will find new ways to provide deeper insight on the health of our service and meet customer expectations on availability.