Senior SDE — Networking & SDN at Scale

Socket.dev; 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's MONA team is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to be a technical leader and force multiplier, partnering with the engineering manager to shape software strategy while building in-house controllers, SDN, and planning systems for a 1M+ device network. If you want scope to influence what we build and how we build it, this is that role.

Join a team that owns end-to-end systems from data-center capacity planning to out-of-band management, with emphasis on correctness, safety,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language.
• 7+ years leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• 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.
• Design and build in-house systems—controllers, SDN, and planning software—end-to-end, scalable 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 SSH connectivity.
• Drive correctness and safety for automation on production networks: idempotency, guardrails, observability.
• Lead design reviews, raise standards, and mentor engineers.
• Participate in on-call and help lead incident response.

Skills

Software development

Programming languages

System design

Mentorship

Education

Master's degree in computer science

Job description

Amazon's MONA team is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to be a technical leader and force multiplier, partnering with the engineering manager to shape software strategy while building in-house controllers, SDN, and planning systems for a 1M+ device network. If you want scope to influence what we build and how we build it, this is that role.

Join a team that owns end-to-end systems from data-center capacity planning to out-of-band management, with emphasis on correctness, safety,