Software Development Engineer II - AWS Networking Applications, SIDR
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Description
What do we do here? Amazon Web Services runs one of the largest networks in the world. Our organization designed a new routing protocol built for the demands of modern workloads, and our team built the control plane that implements it — governing how traffic moves across the fabrics of the Amazon data center network, reacting to both static topology and real-time state at a scale few systems operate at.
Why now? Our control plane is expanding to cover more of AWS's network, and we're growing the team to match. We're looking for a software engineer who wants to go deep on large-scale distributed systems, hyperscale data center networks, SDN, and global software deployment.
What you'll do?
- Design and build the stateful control-plane software that applies intended network state across thousands of devices and guarantees they converge correctly and safely — including failure handling and rollback.
- Own features end-to-end: requirements, design, implementation, code review, worldwide deployment, and operations.
- Work with partner teams and customers to bring new algorithms and capabilities into production at scale.
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional software development experience
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Rust, C++, Java, Go)
- Experience building and operating distributed systems or backend services
- Solid grasp of CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with large-scale, fault-tolerant systems and operational ownership (on-call, incident response)
- Exposure to Rust, or demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on a new language
- Experience reasoning about consistency, coordination, or state machines in distributed systems
Who we are: a highly motivated team of software developers who thrive on hard distributed-systems problems and building at a scale few engineers get to work on. If you like working hard, having fun, and making history — talk to us.
Who are we looking for? Smart, talented engineers who like hard problems. Networking background not required — we'll teach you. Come work hard, have fun, and make history with us.
Why now? Our control plane is expanding to cover more of AWS's network, and we're growing the team to match. We're looking for a software engineer who wants to go deep on large-scale distributed systems, hyperscale data center networks, SDN, and global software deployment.
What you'll do?
- Design and build the stateful control-plane software that applies intended network state across thousands of devices and guarantees they converge correctly and safely — including failure handling and rollback.
- Own features end-to-end: requirements, design, implementation, code review, worldwide deployment, and operations.
- Work with partner teams and customers to bring new algorithms and capabilities into production at scale.
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional software development experience
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Rust, C++, Java, Go)
- Experience building and operating distributed systems or backend services
- Solid grasp of CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with large-scale, fault-tolerant systems and operational ownership (on-call, incident response)
- Exposure to Rust, or demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on a new language
- Experience reasoning about consistency, coordination, or state machines in distributed systems
Who we are: a highly motivated team of software developers who thrive on hard distributed-systems problems and building at a scale few engineers get to work on. If you like working hard, having fun, and making history — talk to us.
Who are we looking for? Smart, talented engineers who like hard problems. Networking background not required — we'll teach you. Come work hard, have fun, and make history with us.