Job Description
DESCRIPTION
As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Network Capacity Services, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable solutions for network capacity planning and optimization. You'll work with cross-functional teams to build robust systems that help manage and forecast network infrastructure needs across AWS's global network.
Key job responsibilities
Design and implement scalable solutions for network capacity management
Create and maintain monitoring and alerting systems
Collaborate with network engineers, finance, supply chain, and operations teams
Drive technical decisions and architectural improvements
Mentor team members and contribute to team growth
Participate in on-call rotations to support production systems
A day in the life
As NLM software engineer, you will spend time working with network owners looking for opportunities to add more safety, speed and automation into their processes. Equipped with this knowledge, you will translate business requirements into technical requirements, architect and design new features to help our customers fulfill their business requirements. Scale always break software. At AWS we know this by heart and are always on a lookout of what will be our next scaling limitation. We then go back to the drawing board and evolve our software architecture to work for the future scale needs. Taking care of scale is a daily activity for us.
About the team
AWS Network Lifecycle Management (NLM) team owns software systems that empower network fabric owners to automate management of the complete network device lifecycle, from initial provisioning all the way through decommissioning, including periodic updates, upgrades and configuration changes. NLM is a vital team that ensures that AWS Network can grow and keep up with the ever growing customer demand for larger and more reliable networks. Every new network device, installed in AWS, is brough to life using our software. Every time network engineers enable new functionality or tweak existing features, the intended changes get deployed to the network safely by NLM software services. Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring, and thorough but kind design and code reviews. We care about your career growth and align projects that help our team members develop engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more ambiguous and complex responsibilities.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empowers us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you would like to request an accommodation for the interview or onboarding process, please let us know and we will connect you to our accommodation team. You may also reach them directly by visiting
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, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Mentorship and Career growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
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ABOUT THE TEAM
AWS NFE (Network Fabric Engineering) owns datacenter network services that provide unconstrained connectivity to our customers, such as EC2, EBS, S3 and Amazon CDO Services. They own the networks internal to the datacenters end to end, including scaling and operational functions, for both traditional datacenters. They also own newer AWS offerings such as Outposts and Local Zones.
A DAY IN THE LIFE
As a hands-on Software Development Engineer, you will work in a 24x7 team on call rotation, with ability to drive into workplace for critical events/needs. Manage customers during problem resolution and operating efficiently under pressure.
• Sit at the computer during scheduled work hours with appropriate breaks while maintaining a high level of alertness and attention to detail.
• Travel to data center/network sites and Amazon/customer offices as needed.
KEY REPONSIBILITIES
As a hands-on Engineer, you will be in charge of the complete software development lifecycle—defining, prioritizing, designing, building, and testing new features.
• You will operate an AWS business with globally distributed servers and customers at a massive scale.
• You will understand what it takes to grow and operate a global business at our scale.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Job Tags
Full time, Local area, Flexible hours,