Amazon Software Dev Eng II EC2 VPC 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

863794681

We are growing fast, and we are looking for an experience Software Engineer to drive our vision of making EC2 VPC the most trusted, secure, and reliable networking environment on the planet. You will join a team that develops core underlying network virtualization primitives that powers AWS products such as Transit Gateways, Network Load Balancers, and Outpost connectivity. In partnership with EC2 Product Management, Principal and Senior SDEs you will be responsible for building and operating high-performance embedded systems written in Rust/C/C++ to process packets at scale. The role offers opportunities to impact all of our customers, including internal ones like AWS EC2, S3, and DynamoDB, as well as external customers running on EC2, as we frequently deploy new capabilities and updates. With access to Principal and Senior Principal leaders across AWS, there is significant potential for professional growth to help shape the future of cloud computing infrastructure.Key job responsibilities
- Design, develop, implement, test, document and deliver large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications, tools, systems and services using object-oriented programming, distributed or embedded programming, and related technologies.
- Effectively make priority tradeoffs between new feature development and operational work, resolving disagreements through constructive dialogue.
- Identify and execute on opportunities to improve the team's software quality, customer experience, and maintainability, balancing customer and team requirements.
- Stay up with the latest technical knowledge in the field, and always be on the lookout for new technologies and opportunities.Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives. This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.Mentorship & Career Growth

- 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of web protocols and networking fundamentals
- Experience with TCP/IP packet analysis
- Data analysis skills using SQL