Amazon Senior Software Development Engineer - 

United States, California 

750126105

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.The Anti-DDoS team is looking for software engineers to solve incredibly challenging low-level networking problems, deliver new capabilities, and continue to scale our platform to meet the increasing needs of our customers world-wide. The ideal candidate has strong technical background in computer networking and programming experience in Java, C, C++, and is familiar with dataplane networking - such as DPDK or XDP.Key job responsibilities
• Lead projects, requiring both business and technical domain knowledge, and drive solutions to complex or ambiguous problems with limited guidance.
• Set the team bar for writing clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews.
• Drive team’s overall technical architecture, engineering practices, and engineering methodologies.
• Work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
• Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against fast-paced schedules.About the team
*Why AWS*
*Diverse Experiences*
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.*Work/Life Balance*
*Inclusive Team Culture*
*Mentorship and Career Growth*
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ 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

- Experience writing low level drivers
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent