Software Development Engineer, Route 53 Edge Platforms

Software Development Engineer, Route 53 Edge Platforms

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) service offered by Amazon Web Services. We operate in over 50 locations worldwide and provide advanced functionality such as latency-based routing (LBR), Private DNS, Geo DNS routing, DNS failover, and integration with Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, and Amazon Elastic Load Balancing. Our service is quickly growing and we're expanding in multiple directions: adding new features and functionality to our DNS services, better traffic management, new AWS integrations, improving our health check capabilities, and expanding with new services in the naming and routing space. Throughout everything we do, there’s a core focus to be operationally indistinguishable from perfect. Our mission is to build and operate a better and secure Internet.

Amazon Route 53 is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join our Edge Platforms Team. In this role you will design, develop, and operate systems to support our global fleet edge fleets. The ideal candidate has experience working on distributed systems, networking, and low-level optimization and infrastructure, and thrives in a highly collaborative, creative, analytical, and fast-paced environment.

If you are interested in living every day at the forefront of extreme scale and cutting-edge technologies, you will enjoy Amazon Route 53!

1. 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2. 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
3. Experience programming with at least one software programming language
4. 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
5. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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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 this link. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.