Develop and extend traffic engineering controllers that detect congestion and failures in real time and automatically reroute traffic to healthier paths
Write clean, well-tested code in a production environment where availability directly impacts AWS customers
Contribute to system design discussions — from API design to data modelling to choosing the right trade-offs for scale and reliability
Build and improve monitoring, alerting, and automation tooling to give the team better visibility into network health
Collaborate with network engineers, systems engineers, and partner teams to translate operational needs into software solutions
Participate in code reviews, providing thoughtful and constructive feedback to teammates
Participate in on-call rotations (typically one week every two months), working with the team to resolve issues and fix root causes
Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, or improve existing systems and processes
A day in the life
You'll spend most of your time building software that gives us visibility and control over traffic across the AWS backbone. On any given day you might be designing a new feature, reviewing a teammate's code, or debugging issues. You'll work closely with network engineers and partner teams — a lot of what you build is about detecting problems and mitigating them before customers notice. Beyond coding, you'll join design discussions and on-call rotations. The work mixes building new things with keeping existing systems reliable at massive scale.
About the team
We build the systems that keep traffic flowing across the AWS global backbone — connecting every region and edge location worldwide. Our network grows ~70% year-on-year, so the problems we solve constantly evolve. The team is distributed across the US and Australia, and this role is based in Seattle. We have a broad mix of experience levels and backgrounds, and we genuinely value mentorship and knowledge sharing. What matters most is curiosity and a willingness to solve hard problems.
3+ years of non-internship professional software development 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
3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
