Global DNS Software Engineer—Low Latency

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Herndon, VA is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate globally distributed systems for Route 53 DNS services. You will work across control plane and data plane, APIs, and integrations with AWS networking and security services.

You will help drive architecture decisions, champion best practices, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to high-availability DNS solutions in a fast-paced AWS environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
• Experience developing software in multiple languages like Java, Rust, Golang is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly available, low-latency distributed systems that serve DNS traffic at global scale.
• Build and operate secure, resilient services that protect customer workloads across hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments.
• Develop control plane and data plane components, APIs, and integrations with AWS networking and security services.
• Architect solutions that support containerized workloads, microservices, and modern cloud-native application patterns.
• Contribute to the security posture of the service, including DNS Firewall capabilities, encryption, access controls, and threat mitigation.
• Operate services in a DevOps model with a focus on automation, observability, and operational excellence.
• Participate in on-call rotations and drive root cause analysis for production issues.
• Mentor and develop junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and technical guidance

Skills

Software development

System design

Distributed systems

Tools

Kubernetes

Containerization

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Herndon, VA is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate globally distributed systems for Route 53 DNS services. You will work across control plane and data plane, APIs, and integrations with AWS networking and security services.

You will help drive architecture decisions, champion best practices, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to high-availability DNS solutions in a fast-paced AWS environment.