Software Development Engineer, BigMesh, Traffic Engineering

Are you looking to work on the coolest technology while growing your career, in a group that cares about people just as much as products?

Amazon Traffic Engineering builds innovative managed compute and networking solutions that empower Amazon Software Engineers to build and operate services for Amazons customers that are secure, highly available, and easy to scale. We identify and support the foundational infrastructure capabilities, tools, and datasets needed to support rapid global expansion of Amazon's SOA infrastructure, built on top of AWS technologies. Our team focuses on robust and scalable architecture patterns and engineering best practices, driving adoption of ever-evolving AWS technologies.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will be working on an in-house Service Mesh for centralized traffic management and SOA policy implementation at Amazon, focusing on features like security, authentication, authorization, load balancing, throttling, routing, and more. Your products will continuously improve KPIs (availability, efficiency, productivity) on behalf of service owners by managing SOA concerns, providing automation, tooling, and higher-level abstractions.

Our vision is to make Amazons Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) more manageable and developers more productive by building an ecosystem of managed abstractions that allow Amazon Retail developers to focus on their unique business logic and business operations, knowing that security, authentication, authorization, load balancing, throttling and routing just work and are always consistent with Amazon best practices.

If you are interested in programming in Golang and Java, empowering thousands of Amazon most critical business processes with Service Mesh features, then this job is for you. If you do not know Golang, our training and on-boarding support will help you pick it up.

Come help us create and evolve the abstractions that make developing software at Amazon even more powerful and flexible!

Key job responsibilities
-Design, develop, and deliver high-quality software solutions to meet business needs
-Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code following best practices
-Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle
-Collaborate cross-functionally to understand requirements and provide technical guidance -Identify and address technical challenges, and drive improvements
-Review code submissions and mentor junior engineers
-Participate and contribute in design and brainstorming sessions with team.

A day in the life
As a Software Development Engineer II, your day will start with a daily standup to align the team on progress, blockers, and priorities. You'll then spend the majority of your time designing, developing, and delivering high-quality software solutions to meet critical customer needs. This will involve collaborative ideation with your team, writing clean and efficient code, conducting thorough testing, and participating in code reviews to ensure maintainability. The role requires a mix of technical depth, problem-solving skills, and effective cross-team collaboration to create innovative solutions that delight our customers.

About the team
The Big Mesh Load Management team is at the forefront of developing and maintaining Amazon's next-generation service connectivity platform. We build and operate sophisticated load balancing and service protection systems that power critical internal services at massive scale. Our team tackles exciting technical challenges in distributed systems, high-performance computing, and real-time decision making. If you're passionate about building resilient infrastructure that impacts millions of requests per second and want to work on technology that shapes how Amazon's services communicate, you have clicked on the right team!

- 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 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
- Do you have prior experience networking and load balancing technologies?

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.