Amazon Principal Software Engineer AWS Border Network 

United States, California 

715629381

Key job responsibilities
• Drive clarity and consensus for both business problems and technical strategy; and independently lead our most demanding, cross-functional projects spanning across AWS Border Networking org.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to Senior Managers, Directors and VPs, influencing planning strategy and trade-offs.
• Lead the design and architecture, get hands dirty and write code, and ultimately deploy systems that will process and steer packets (network traffic) at scale.
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions that demonstrate significant creativity and high judgment.
• Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations.
• Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Leverage knowledge of internal and industry prior art in design decisions.
• Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
• Work effectively with product development and engineering teams across multiple geographies.

• 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms

Experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment, ideally with a networking (routing, BGP, firewalls, load-balancer, gateways, etc.) background