Lead Software Engineer, DNS & Distributed Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon's Route 53 Waypoint team seeks a Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate highly available DNS infrastructure across 50+ global locations. You will own architecture, implementation, deployment, and production operations while collaborating with AWS teams on traffic management and security services.

The role emphasizes leadership in design reviews, feature development, and resolving complex issues in large-scale systems.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
• Experience programming with Java, C++, or C#.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain highly available, scalable distributed systems for Route 53's DNS infrastructure across 50+ locations.
• Lead technical initiatives to build new features and functionality including Private DNS, DNS Firewall, DNS resolver, health checks, and security services.
• Own the full software development lifecycle—from architecture and implementation to deployment and production operations—while maintaining a 100% availability SLA
• Collaborate cross-functionally with teams across AWS to deliver integrations, traffic management solutions, and routing capabilities
• Drive operational excellence by building and running software in production, troubleshooting complex issues spanning databases, networking, distributed systems, and security
• Mentor team members and raise the technical bar through code reviews, design discussions, and engineering best practices
• Solve challenging problems in computer science including distributed systems, numerical analysis, networking, and security at massive scale

Skills

Non-internship software development

System design / architecture

Java / C++ / C# programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

XDP/eBPF

Job description

Amazon's Route 53 Waypoint team seeks a Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate highly available DNS infrastructure across 50+ global locations. You will own architecture, implementation, deployment, and production operations while collaborating with AWS teams on traffic management and security services.

The role emphasizes leadership in design reviews, feature development, and resolving complex issues in large-scale systems.