Software Development Engineer, Penrose Networks

Amazon; Dublin; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon, working on Penrose Networks at AWS, seeks a Software Developer Engineer to own the design and development of core components of the next-generation datacenter network.

You will build tools that provide network visibility and automate wiring and expansion across global DC networks, collaborating with Network Engineering, DC Operations, and many provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and scaling teams.

Qualifications

• Professional software development experience outside internships.
• Experience designing or architecting scalable systems.
• Proficient in at least one programming language.
• Ability to coordinate high-output AI-assisted development.

Responsibilities

• Develop world-class software systems for automating Amazon's network.
• Provide technical direction to the team and identify areas of focus.
• Create and review software design documentation.
• Collaborate with Principal Engineers and Scholars to roll out new designs.
• Own the operational excellence of production software.
• Improve documentation, processes, and tools to boost team performance.

Skills

Professional software development

Systems design/architecture

Programming in at least one language

AI agents coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Rust

Java

C/C++

Linux

Job description

A Software Developer Engineer in Penrose Networks at AWS owns the design and development of key components of Amazon’s next-generation datacenter network.

This includes building tools to provide network visibility to a wide range of internal operators, and systems to automate wiring and incremental expansion of DC networks, globally. You will collaborate with Network Engineering, DC Operations, and with a wide range of teams operating provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring and scaling tools.

Key job responsibilities

• Develop world-class software systems for automating Amazon's network.
• Provide technical direction to the team and identify areas of focus.
• Create and review software design documentation
• Collaborate with Principal Engineers and Scholars to ensure fast, smooth roll-out of new designs and products.
• Own the operational excellence of the software you put into production.
• Contribute to improving our documentation, processes, and tools so that we improve our performance as a team.

A day in the life

You will have frontier coding agents with unlimited tokens.

About the team

Penrose Networks is the next-generation datacenter network in AWS. Through a novel architecture based on special mathematical properties, we deliver more resilient, higher-bandwidth, and lower-cost networking compared to the current industry standard. Our team has invented this technology, proven its viability, and driven its adoption across AWS. We are currently working to further enlarge the adoption of this technology to a wider set of use cases and locations.

We are a tiger team. We are disruptors. Our team owns the network, software, and program management aspects that make this next-gen network a reality.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience (non‑internship) in professional software development
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Ability to produce high output of high-quality code by overseeing multiple AI agents

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Knowledge of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Rust, Java, C/C++), and a solid understanding of the Linux operating system

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