Senior Software Engineer, Network Automation & SDN

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 193,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead critical in-house systems for a 1M+ device network. You will drive architecture, roadmap, and scalable design with a team of engineers. You will mentor peers and participate in on-call incident response.

The role emphasizes ownership of controllers, SDN, and data-center planning software, with opportunities to influence strategy and contribute to fleet-scale automation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the engineering manager to shape the team's software strategy — architecture, roadmap, and long-term vision.
• Design and build in-house systems—controllers, SDN, and planning software—end-to-end at fleet scale.
• Own and evolve the controller for agentic network auto-remediation.
• Build planning software for data centers — capacity, racks, and ports.

Skills

Software development

Leadership & mentoring

Technical leadership

Architectural design

Education

Master's degree in computer science

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead critical in-house systems for a 1M+ device network. You will drive architecture, roadmap, and scalable design with a team of engineers. You will mentor peers and participate in on-call incident response.

The role emphasizes ownership of controllers, SDN, and data-center planning software, with opportunities to influence strategy and contribute to fleet-scale automation.