Software Development Engineer, AWS Network Firewall

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design planning delivery and operation of all AWS global other words were 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 were looking for talented people who want to help.

Youll join a diverse team of software hardware and network engineers supply chain specialists security experts operations managers and other vital roles. Youll 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 youll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

AWS Network Firewall is a new services that defends Internet-facing applications against evolving threats. We build everything from low-level packet inspection hardware/software to customer-facing AWS services to globally distributed systems capable of mitigating the worlds largest and most sophisticated cyber-attacks. Our unique technology and innovative services such as AWS Network Firewall AWS Shield AWS WAF and AWS Firewall Manager monitor and defend some of the largest customers and networks in the world.

We need talented Software Development Engineers like you to continue developing new capabilities for our recently launched AWS Network Firewall service.

Join us if
- You want to play a leading role influencing how we design develop build deploy and support new services.
- You care deeply about delighting customers and building high quality software. Our leadership principles ( empower us to act and challenge us never to accept the status quo.
- You want to work in a fast-paced environment with a start-up atmosphere. We ship code every day!

There are few teams in the world that develop critical cybersecurity attack mitigation capabilities at our scale. We are working with customers gathering requirements designing building supporting and iterating quickly to meet their needs.

Successful candidates will enjoy distributed systems design and have outstanding analytical skills and communication ability. They will thrive in a highly collaborative creative analytical and fast-paced environment and be comfortable interacting with highly technical software and networking development teams. Does that sound like you If so we encourage you to apply!

Key job responsibilities
- Design develop and maintain scalable high-performance distributed systems that power AWS Network Firewalls traffic inspection and filtering capabilities
- Write clean efficient and well-tested code in languages such as Java Python or C to deliver features that protect customer networks at cloud scale
- Collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional teams to define technical requirements architect solutions and drive implementation of new firewall features
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across distributed systems contributing to operational excellence through on-call rotations and root cause analysis
- Participate in code reviews design discussions and documentation efforts to uphold engineering best practices and raise the bar for team quality
- Contribute to the full software development lifecyclefrom design and implementation through testing deployment and monitoring in a CI/CD environment
- Identify opportunities to improve system reliability performance and security while reducing operational burden through automation and tooling

- 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
- 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.

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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 WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually