Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a best-in-class Software Development Engineer for the Internet Automation team in Seattle, Washington. This team works at the Internet edge of the AWS global network, connecting Amazon services to the Internet via external peering and transit connectivity. We are looking to hire motivated, best-in-class Software and Systems Engineers for our Seattle engineering team.In this role, you'll develop software that's removing the need for human intervention by performing millions of daily operations across a multitude of regions across the globe. You'll join a team that's instrumental in driving the stability and sustainability of our next-generation networks and discovering innovative ways to automate and scale services as we continue to expand.The Networking & Infrastructure teams at AWS are building software to simplify the internet and control traffic, automate network remediation and deployment, improve performance for customers, answer queries about the safety of network actions and automatically detect anomalies using scientific intelligence, and roll out new software to the fleet of network devices with minimum human interaction.You'll join a group that owns a product and iterates fast to continuously improve. A group that ships positivity within the team to create a happy and respectful work environment, and values self investment as a core part of their success.Key job responsibilities* Develop best in class software systems for automating Amazon's network* Provide technical direction to the team and identify areas of focus* Create and review software design documentation and mentor junior engineers* Collaborate with the Network Engineering teams to ensure fast, smooth roll-out of new designs and products* Operate the software you're putting into production* Create and review documentation and process regarding recurring issues, new standard operating procedures, knowledge transfer material, etc* Collaborate with the Network Engineering and Operations teams to automate and invent new ways of operating Amazon's Next-Generation NetworkA day in the lifeAs a Software Development Engineer on the Internet Edge organization, you will have a wide range of responsibilities: we evolve routing policy, implement traffic engineering solutions, grow our peering footprint, secure the "front door" from bad actors on the Internet, and architect the hardware platforms and network design to support any Amazon product that needs to reach end-users worldwide. Our infrastructure moves terabits of traffic to and from the Internet at any given moment, and represents one of the largest edge surface areas in the world, requiring complex solutions to ensure that capacity always stays ahead of demand. To accomplish that, our engineers develop automation, write software, and work with a wide range of partner teams to continually improve and automate our Internet connectivity in areas such as capacity delivery, configuration deployment, impairment detection, and traffic optimization. Internet Edge engineers make decisions on both a day-to-day and long-term strategic basis, which carries a large amount of responsibility and impact across all of Amazon's products.About the teamOur mission is to innovate, build, and operate Internet-specific services that deliver the most secure, highest performing, and scalable Internet connectivity possible for our customers, while ensuring our customers are never constrained.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Seattle, WA, USA- 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- Experience programming with at least one software programming language- 3+ years of full so