SDE II: Edge Networking & Distributed Systems

Amazon Inc.; 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 Web Services, Inc. in Herndon, VA seeks a software engineer to design, build, test, and operate scalable control plane, distribution, and data plane services routing AWS Outposts traffic worldwide.

You will own components end to end, write high-quality code, and mentor others while collaborating with S3, EBS, and Route 53 teams to improve reliability and performance in production.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience for complex systems.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational 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.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and operate scalable, highly available control plane, distribution, and data plane services that route production traffic for AWS Outposts deployments worldwide.
• Own significant components end to end—from design documents and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and long-term operational health.
• Take ambiguous, loosely defined problems and drive them to well-reasoned technical designs, making sound tradeoffs with limited guidance.
• Write, update, and improve AI agents and automation that increase software-development and operational efficiency—reducing manual toil so the team can focus on high-judgment work.
• Raise the operational bar: improve observability, harden deployment pipelines, and drive down the time-to-detect and time-to-mitigate for the systems you own.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for the services you own, and lead the investigation and resolution of production issues, including root-cause analysis and long-term corrective actions.
• Write high-quality, well-tested, maintainable code and hold a high bar in design and code reviews.
• Brainstorm ideas with teammates and review key technical decisions and designs with senior engineers and leadership to pressure-test approaches and align on direction.
• Mentor junior engineers, share context generously, and contribute to the technical direction and engineering standards of the team.
• Collaborate across teams—partner service teams (e.g., S3, EBS, Route 53), networking, and hardware/edge teams—to deliver features that span organizational boundaries.

Skills

Software development

System design

OO design

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Herndon, VA seeks a software engineer to design, build, test, and operate scalable control plane, distribution, and data plane services routing AWS Outposts traffic worldwide.

You will own components end to end, write high-quality code, and mentor others while collaborating with S3, EBS, and Route 53 teams to improve reliability and performance in production.