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Software Development Engineer II - AWS Networking Applications, SIDR

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Santa Clara, CA
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Job overview

Amazon Web Services is expanding a control plane that implements a routing protocol across its data center network. The software applies intended network state across thousands of devices and supports safe convergence, failure handling, and rollback. The engineer will own features from requirements and design through implementation, deployment, and operations, and work with partner teams and customers to bring algorithms and capabilities into production.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Modern Programming LanguagesDistributed SystemsBackend ServicesData StructuresAlgorithmsConcurrencyFault-Tolerant SystemsOperational OwnershipRustConsistencyCoordinationState MachinesSystem DesignReliabilityScalabilityC#C++JavaPerlObject-Oriented DesignSoftware Development Life CycleCoding StandardsCode ReviewSource Control ManagementBuild ProcessesTestingOperations

Qualifications

3+ Years Software Development Experience2+ Years System Design Experience1+ Year Related Experience1+ Year Large-Scale Software Experience1+ Year Object-Oriented Design ExperienceBachelor's in CS, Engineering, Mathematics, or RelatedBachelor's in Computer Science or Equivalent

Full job description

Description

What do we do here? Amazon Web Services runs one of the largest networks in the world. Our organization designed a new routing protocol built for the demands of modern workloads, and our team built the control plane that implements it — governing how traffic moves across the fabrics of the Amazon data center network, reacting to both static topology and real-time state at a scale few systems operate at.

Why now? Our control plane is expanding to cover more of AWS's network, and we're growing the team to match. We're looking for a software engineer who wants to go deep on large-scale distributed systems, hyperscale data center networks, SDN, and global software deployment.

What you'll do?

  • Design and build the stateful control-plane software that applies intended network state across thousands of devices and guarantees they converge correctly and safely — including failure handling and rollback.

  • Own features end-to-end: requirements, design, implementation, code review, worldwide deployment, and operations.

  • Work with partner teams and customers to bring new algorithms and capabilities into production at scale.

Basic Qualifications

  • 3+ years of professional software development experience

  • Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Rust, C++, Java, Go)

  • Experience building and operating distributed systems or backend services

  • Solid grasp of CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with large-scale, fault-tolerant systems and operational ownership (on-call, incident response)

  • Exposure to Rust, or demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on a new language

  • Experience reasoning about consistency, coordination, or state machines in distributed systems

Who we are: a highly motivated team of software developers who thrive on hard distributed-systems problems and building at a scale few engineers get to work on. If you like working hard, having fun, and making history — talk to us.

Who are we looking for? Smart, talented engineers who like hard problems. Networking background not required — we'll teach you. Come work hard, have fun, and make history with us.

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

  • 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

  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

  • 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

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

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.

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How this job compares

Set against the 1,328 open Software Development Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
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  • California median$165–224K/yr174 salary ranges
Openings
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Experience
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Education
591 of the 1,328 open Software Development Engineer jobs (45%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

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