Amazon
Software Development Engineer, AWS Networks
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 1+ years of qualifying software design and development experience. Preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Preferred: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Builds and operates software that monitors and steers traffic across the AWS global backbone, detecting congestion and failures and rerouting traffic to improve reliability.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and maintain traffic-steering services and controllers for the AWS backbone.
- Develop monitoring, alerting, and automation tools; write and review production code.
- Collaborate on system design and operational needs, and participate in on-call rotations.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 1+ years designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C#, C++, Java, Perl
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