Software Development Engineer, Route 53

Do you want to build global-scale infrastructure using code? Do you love solving challenging and interesting technical problems to run an AWS tier-zero service? If yes, this may well be the exciting opportunity you're looking for.

Our team tackles some of the most challenging problems in availability, scalability, security and performance to build a global service. At Route 53, we serve billions of customer DNS queries a day with a daunting and realistic 100% availability SLA. Route 53 at AWS is a tier-zero networking service and as a result, our operational bar is very high. We are a core service to all AWS and interact directly with customers and their end-users.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Developing new services and features
• Writing and building infrastructure-as-code
• Designing systems
• Addressing availability, performance and capacity issues
• Helping us to operate our global service, running the service end-to-end
• Performing data analysis to optimize our products
• Troubleshooting, diagnosing and fixing production software issues
• Developing automation for infrastructure build-outs
• Developing monitoring solutions
• Performing software maintenance and configuration
• Implementing fixes for internally-developed code (Ruby, Java, JavaScript)

We're looking for detail-oriented individuals with great verbal and written communication skills, strong organizational skills, ability to juggle multiple tasks, work independently, and maintain a professional approach under pressure. You must have the mindset to identify problems before they happen and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members, with a broad mix of experience levels and tenures. We celebrate knowledge sharing and mentorship, while having fun and maintaining a great work-life harmony. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your personal and professional lives.

This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every three months. We work to ensure our systems are fault tolerant and resolve root causes to prevent repeated issues.

At AWS, we embrace diversity and inclusion, with ten employee-led affinity groups and innovative benefit offerings. We host annual learning experiences, including Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.

Join us to build global-scale infrastructure and tackle exciting challenges in cloud computing!