Software Development Engineer, Amazon Traffic Engineering
DESCRIPTION
Edge Fabric in Amazon Traffic Engineering enables managed internet ingress for Amazon retail and non-retail customer experiences. We protect Amazon’s valued assets with world-class DDoS countermeasures, delight our customers with a responsive first mile, and run zero-trust perimeter security to mitigate threats at their source. We enable Stores builders with frictionless on-ramp, simplified operations and observability, with advanced controls where necessary. On behalf of our customers, we obsess over latency, availability, threat detection, and mitigation.
Our team is starting new projects in compute and platform solutions at the edge to take Amazon to the next level in scale and security. If you love building high performance software that's focused on best-in-class architecture, data processing, and security, we have the job for you.
The ideal candidate is a champion of engineering excellence and improves quality, consistency, maintainability, performance, and security with every code commit. In addition, he/she contributes elegant, practical code that solves the most difficult problems at Amazon scale.
There are no limits to the contribution and impact this role can have, so get ready to make history!
About the team
Our team is embarking on a journey to develop the next generation of internet traffic management software that protects customers experience. Your work will be highly visible and is instrumental in helping Amazon serve record breaking amounts everyday including flagship events such as Prime Day. If you love building high performance software that's focused on best-in-class networking, data processing, security, and leverages AWS technologies, we have the job for you.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.