Senior AWS Networking SDN Lead - Scale & Automation

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

_health insurance_

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon seeks a Sr. Software Development Engineer for the MONA team (Management, Out-of-Band Networks, and Automation) to drive software strategy and build scalable, in-house systems powering a vast data-center network.

You will own end-to-end solutions including controllers, SDN, and planning software, with mentorship and leadership across teams. You will partner with leadership to shape architecture and roadmaps, contribute to design reviews, and participate in on-call incidents, ensuring high

Qualifications

• 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 7+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Responsibilities

• Partner with the engineering manager to shape the team's software strategy — architecture, roadmap, and long-term vision — for the in-house systems behind a 1M+ device network (everything we run, we build ourselves).
• Design and build the in-house systems that solve our business problems — controllers, software-defined networking (SDN), and planning software — end-to-end, architected to scale with robust tests and metrics.
• Own and evolve our controller for agentic network auto-remediation that detects and resolves network issues automatically.
• Build the planning software that plans every new data center — capacity, racks, and ports — and deploys new network fabric.
• Own out-of-band management-plane services: serial console access to every server and router, plus managed connectivity such as SSH.
• Drive correctness and safety for automation acting on production networks: idempotency, guardrails, and observability that proves work actually happened.
• Lead design reviews, raise the operational-excellence and code-quality bar, and mentor engineers.
• Participate in on-call and help lead high-severity incident response.

Skills

Software development

Programming

System design

Mentorship

Education

Master's degree in CS

Job description

Amazon seeks a Sr. Software Development Engineer for the MONA team (Management, Out-of-Band Networks, and Automation) to drive software strategy and build scalable, in-house systems powering a vast data-center network.

You will own end-to-end solutions including controllers, SDN, and planning software, with mentorship and leadership across teams. You will partner with leadership to shape architecture and roadmaps, contribute to design reviews, and participate in on-call incidents, ensuring high