Amazon
Software Development Engineer, Amazon Route 53, Route 53 Resolver Firewall & Profiles
$144K–$194K
Arlington, VA · Full-time · Posted Aug 12, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience. Preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Preferred: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall and Route 53 Profiles, developing DNS threat detection, filtering, and centralized DNS management features at scale.
What you'll do
- Design and build features across control and data planes, APIs, and integrations with AWS networking and security services.
- Improve DNS threat detection and customer configurability, including next-generation protections.
- Contribute to system architecture and engineering best practices, and coach junior engineers.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Route 53 Resolver, VPC networking, Private Link, AWS RAM, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Organizations
AI focus
Develop advanced detection features and models for DNS threats, and architect agentic attack prevention capabilities.
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