AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

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.

Amazon’s network is a key differentiator for Amazon Web Services (AWS), enabling the global operation of thousands of applications on millions of servers worldwide. The AWS Networking team develops and operates the global network platform for all of Amazon, superseding a network that originally evolved using industry-standard technologies and designs. Our teams support all aspects of connectivity between Amazon and the outside world, as well as connectivity between Amazon’s data centers and services.

In this role, you will contribute in the development of Condor's control plane — the critical system that delivers network state to packet processors at Amazon's edge. You will participate in architecture decisions and design reviews, as well as take ownership ensuring our platform operates at scale. You will collaborate with both software and network experts, embodying best practices to create best-in-class solutions for our customers worldwide!

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer III you will:

• Lead multi-engineer projects and own team architecture, guiding technology strategy across related teams
• Develop and deliver software systems to customers, particularly control plane for next-generation software-defined networks
• Solve complex problems with multiple risks using simple solutions; make informed trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term architecture
• Review work to ensure it's well-designed, extensible, performant, and secure
• Deliver working software across the full lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations
• Set a culture of robust development through exemplary coding practices and strong operational practices
• Coach and mentor multiple engineers; build consensus across teams through inclusive, constructive dialog
• Resolve root causes of endemic problems that limit other teams' innovation
• Communicate technical designs effectively to technical and leadership audiences

A day in the life
This opportunity exists within the AWS Internet Edge team, where we build software-defined networking (SDN) controllers that operate the network. As part of a new multi-year initiative, we are building a control plane distribution system that will synchronize network state across thousands of packet processors at the edge. You'll work with software and network engineers to ensure that configuration changes and dynamic routing updates propagate to forwarding hardware in sub-second timeframes, enabling customers to run demanding workloads at scale. This is a unique opportunity to architect and innovate on one of the world's largest networks that delivers terabits of traffic each day for our customers.

During a typical work day you will:

• Join our daily team standup to sync up on current tasks
• Spend uninterrupted time writing code
• Meet with customers and other stakeholders to discuss their needs from our platforms, and help integrate their input into our plan
• Collect metrics and telemetry data to characterize the performance of our platform
• Write up a design proposal of a new feature for collaborative review

About the team
About 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.

Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

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.