Sr. Software Development Engineer, MONA

Socket.dev; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 193,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's MONA team within AWS Core Networking is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead design and drive scale for one million-device network. You will partner with the engineering manager to shape our software strategy while continuing to design and build these systems at fleet scale.

If you want the scope to influence what we build and how we build it — and to keep building it yourself — this is that role.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience (non-internship).
• 7+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle including coding standards, reviews, and operations.
• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 4+ years of highly scalable systems experience.

Responsibilities

• Shape the team's software strategy — architecture, roadmap, and long-term vision.
• Design and build in-house systems — controllers, SDN, and planning software — at fleet scale.
• Own and evolve the controller for agentic network auto-remediation.
• Build planning software that designs data centers — capacity, racks, ports and deployment.
• Own out-of-band management services: serial console access and SSH."
• Drive correctness and safety for automation on production networks with observability.
• Lead design reviews, raise the code-quality bar, and mentor engineers.
• Participate in on-call and incident response.

Skills

Software development

Leadership

Mentoring

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in CS (preferred)

Job description

AWS runs one of the largest networks in the world, and MONA (Management, Out-of-Band Networks, and Automation) alone owns over one million physical devices across its full lifecycle. We are in the critical path for every new data center powering the AI revolution.

We build the in-house software that solves our hardest network business problems — controllers, software-defined networking (SDN), and planning systems. For example, we own a controller for agentic network auto-remediation, and the planning software that plans every new data center down to capacity and ports. We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to be a technical leader and force multiplier: you will partner with the engineering manager to shape our software strategy while continuing to design and build these systems at fleet scale. If you want the scope to influence what we build and how we build it — and to keep building it yourself — this is that role.

Key job 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.

A day in the life

No two days look the same. One morning you are whiteboarding with the manager and a principal engineer on how to evolve the control plane for the next wave of AI data centres; the next you are deep in a greenfield auto-remediation service that resolves faults automatically instead of paging a human at 3am. You will make a teammate's design better, unblock a data‑center build with capacity planning, and harden out-of‑band console access to a million devices. You will see your work land at a scale almost nowhere else can offer — with real autonomy and teammates sharp enough to make you better.

About the team

MONA (Management, Out-of-Band Networks, and Automation) is part of AWS Core Networking. We are a highly motivated team of software, systems, and network developers who thrive on solving challenging problems and building large-scale distributed systems. AWS runs one of the largest networks in the world, and MONA alone owns the full lifecycle of over a million physical devices — driving new innovation in one of the largest data centre networks on Earth. Everything we run we build in-house: controllers, software-defined networking, planning software, etc.

Basic 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 4+ years of highly scalable systems experience
• Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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USA, CA, Santa Clara - 193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually