Software Eng II - Cloud-Native Networking & Service Mesh

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a senior software development engineer to design, build, and operate scalable container networking and service mesh infrastructure in Seattle. You will extend the Envoy management plane, automate ELB provisioning, and scale Cloud Map for cross-account discovery.

Collaboration with product and AWS service teams is essential, along with deep focus on reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• 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.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate highly available, scalable distributed systems for container networking and service mesh infrastructure
• Build and extend the Envoy Management Server (xDS) control plane — implementing CDS, EDS, LDS, and RDS APIs that configure thousands of Envoy proxies in real-time for east-west service mesh traffic
• Design and build ELB orchestration systems for Service Gateway — automating ALB/NLB provisioning, listener rule management, target group bindings, TLS certificate association, and multi-service bin-packing to optimize north-south ingress traffic and customer costs
• Develop and scale Cloud Map as the central service registry — building DNS-based and API-based discovery, namespace management, health checking integration, and cross-account service resolution
• Design and implement APIs for ingress traffic management (Service Gateway), service-to-service communication (Service Connect), and service discovery (Cloud Map)
• Drive operational excellence — on-call, COE investigations, deployment safety, and production health
• Build AI-powered operational tooling — develop skills, agents, and automation that improve diagnostics, accelerate root-cause analysis, and enhance operational metrics and alarming
• Design and implement customer self-service capabilities — enabling customers to diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve networking issues independently through better APIs, dashboards, and guided workflows
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Managers, partner AWS service teams (ELB, Route 53, ECS Scheduler), and open-source communities
• Influence technical direction through design documents, code reviews, and architectural decisions

Skills

Software development

Design/Architecture

SDE experience

Large-scale systems

OOP Design

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Mathematics

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a senior software development engineer to design, build, and operate scalable container networking and service mesh infrastructure in Seattle. You will extend the Envoy management plane, automate ELB provisioning, and scale Cloud Map for cross-account discovery.

Collaboration with product and AWS service teams is essential, along with deep focus on reliability and performance.