Amazon Senior System Development Engineer Enterprise Networking 

United States, Minnesota, Minneapolis 

534051763

As a Senior Systems Development Engineer of the Backbone Enterprise, and Regional Engineering (BERE) team, you will provide expertise to expand solutions that support the backbone of the entire AWS global network. In this role, you will interact with network development engineers, software engineers, senior applied scientists and engineers to understand requirements and extend software-defined networks (SDN). You will grow to lead design reviews, aligning engineering efforts across an organization towards an overall technical strategy. In addition, you will support and scale your solutions to meet the ever-growing demand of customer use.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.Key job responsibilities
You will be a hands-on technical lead, who is responsible for all phases of the project development cycle. You will work with customers to gather requirements, generate technical designs, and carry the project from implementation through validation and operations. In the role you'll need to lean on your leadership and communication skills to mentor other engineers and provide training and support for our technologies. Your experience working in systems development or in an enterprise environment will help us implement automated solutions across a variety of applications and systems.
You’ll also:
• Lead in building complex systems and successfully delivering them to customers.
• Use your problem-solving skills, ability to understand and scope solutions, work across teams to drive solutions.
• Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
• Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.
• Work closely with our Network/Systems/Software Engineering teams to ensure fast and smooth roll-out of new designs and products, as well as assist with deployment and sustaining of networking software tools.
• Set the technical direction for future products working across an organization of at least 3 teams.
• Use data to measure success and take responsibility for the quality of your service and, regardless of their source, strive to prevent faults from impacting your customers.
• Contribute to documentation of process and procedures.
• Actively grow the team through leading candidate interviews.
• Participate in an on-call rotation with your team.
A day in the life
Engineers in the GCNA organization have a wide range of responsibilities; we work with internal partners to develop and implement the next-generation platforms along with the tooling ecosystems to support these platforms driving efficiency and scalability through the automation of builds, configuration deployment, and the scaling of capacity. As our network is one of the largest in the world, there is no blueprint allowing our engineers to develop solutions to complex challenges that we face daily.

- 6+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or relevant degree/experience.
- 4+ years of programming/scripting experience with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell or Ruby.
- 4+ years of experience with monitoring, troubleshooting and resolving system and software components.
- 4+ years of experience deploying and operating Linux in an enterprise environment, and a solid grasp on operating system fundamentals.
- 3+ years of experience working independently as a senior contributor or a lead member in large project teams at other organizations.

- Experience with hardware lifecycle qualifications a plus.
- Knowledge of system architecture best practice and experience designing with and integrating cloud-based services into production products.
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Experience with Linux containers, Kubernetes, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a plus.
- Proven hands-on experience of working with AWS products to deliver software systems.
- Experience taking a leading role in building complex systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.