Software Development Engineer Amazon
Herndon, VA

Job Description

Amazon Web Services is expanding our presence within the Herndon, VA area! We currently have mid to senior (lead) level development positions open.

Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) Networking is looking for a highly skilled data plane engineer who can help lead the development of an exciting new distributed networking platform. Come help us build a fault tolerant, highly available, elastically scaling system that will power new customer facing products and develop into a critical piece of the core EC2 Software Defined Network (SDN). We want someone who's enthusiastic about the potential of cloud computing and building resilient, scalable and high-performance distributed services.

The ideal candidate is comfortable dealing with ambiguity, thinking big, and being extremely customer-centric, as well as an ability to prioritize well, communicate clearly and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence. They have a proven track record of building a culture centered on customer focus, efficient execution, high quality, rigorous testing, deep monitoring, and solid deployment practices. We operate at scale and on critical workloads, so a passion and discipline around operational excellence is key. A high level of ownership and accountability is a must.

Amazon has a fast-paced environment where we "Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History." On a "typical" day, software engineers might whip up a prototype to prove or disprove an idea, instrument code to report a new metric, talk with customers, code up a feature, or draft a proposal for a radical new idea.