Software Development Engineer, AWS Border Network Engineering (L5)

Application deadline: Aug 31 2026

The AWS Networking organization is hiring and were looking for talented Software Development Engineers (SDE) to join our team. Within Networking were confronting and solving complex and high-stake challenges. Our teams support the design of connectivity between the hundreds of AWS location and thousands of services. As a member of the Backbone Engineering team you will play a part in designing and architecting software feeding Network Engineers with critical information about AWS Backbone network performance.

This position is part of the Backbone organization where the team is responsible for building solutions that increase the scale efficiency and resiliency of the AWS Backbone.

Ever wonder how Amazon manages the capacity of thousands of network links How Amazon offers a highly available and scalable network Engineers on this team collaborate with various teams to automate capacity allocation of AWS services workloads into the network. Engineers on this team make day-to-day and strategic decisions that carry a huge amount of responsibility and impact.

We strive to have a collaborative environment that impacts products and software across the company.
We use AWS technologies like: DynamoDB SWF S3 EC2 API Gateway Lambda ELB RDS and Athena
We are one of the many teams ensuring Amazons network maintains 100% uptime.

We are spread across Seattle Dublin and Sydney.

Our work has a direct impact on internal and external customers.

We own and operate the infrastructure required to serve our customers.

Why AWS
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Inclusive Team Culture
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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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.

Mentorship and Career growth
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Key job responsibilities
Engineers build software and deploy products that enable the backbone to be utilized as an efficient service by our customers. Our customers utilize our services to visualize the performance of AWS Backbone network that crosses the entire plant identify where in the real-world availability risk and congestion occur to plan and act to protect the network.

Design implement test deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance durability cost and security.
Write high quality distributed system software
Enjoy seeing the impact of your work has on customers.
Work in an agile startup-like development environment where you are always working on the most important stuff.
Take ownership and do what it takes to get the job done.
Learn from others and help grow those in your team to achieve their best.

About the team
We are a group of engineers that value diverse perspectives collaborate freely and believe we should help each other succeed (and fail) as a team. We love to learn and take ownership for our work and we think you probably do too. As a member of our team you will have opportunities to stretch your skills whether that means resolving deep algorithmic knots in our backend services or designing a better user experience for our technical users. The various technical and functional partnership gives us the opportunity to extend our knowledges individual skills and collective ownership.

- 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
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CO Denver - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually
USA MN Minneapolis - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually