Systems Development Engineer, GCNA

As a Systems Development Engineer of the Backbone Enterprise, and Regional Engineering (BERE) team, you will work hand-in-hand with Software Development and Network Engineering teams to drive stability, consistency, and sustainability of the network while never losing sight of the high security bar our customer’s demand. You’ll apply your large-scale understanding of computing solutions to write code and manage services that delight our customers.

AWS Global Connectivity and Network Availability (GCNA) is the backbone that connects the global AWS network. It is dedicated to controlling the internet traffic that allows users to access their information and applications regardless of where they are in the world. GCNA is responsible for building and designing a complex backbone network that allows internet traffic to flow efficiently between Data Centers and customers.
If you are interested in designing and supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure, we'd love for you to apply Come join us if you want to test your limits and tackle technical challenges that you won't see anywhere else.

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Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for the design, implementation and quality of services you deliver. Your experience working in a systems development or in an enterprise environment will help us implement automated solutions across a variety of applications and systems.
You’ll also:
•Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
•Write high quality distributed system software.
•Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.
•Work closely with our Network/Systems/Software Engineering teams to ensure fast and smooth roll-out of new designs and products, as well as assist with deployment and sustaining of networking software tools.
•Use data to measure success and take responsibility for the quality of your service and, regardless of their source, strive to prevent faults from impacting your customers.
•Use your strong problem-solving skills, ability to understand and scope solutions, work across teams to drive solutions.
•Contribute to documentation of process and procedures.
•Learn from others and help grow those in your team to achieve their best.
•Take ownership, consider tradeoffs and lean on your expertise to ensure the job gets done.
•Participate in an on-call rotation with your team.

A day in the life
Engineers in the Backbone Enterprise and Regional Engineering (BERE) organization have a wide range
of responsibilities; we work with internal partners to develop and implement the next-generation platforms along with the tooling ecosystems to support these platforms driving efficiency and scalability through the automation of builds, configuration deployment, and the scaling of capacity. As our network is one of the largest in the world, there is no blueprint allowing our engineers to develop solutions to complex challenges that we face daily. We encourage durable solutions that
look around corners while taking into consideration our customer needs from a cost, performance, and
reliability perspective. Our team develops tooling that provides the required visibility and control of
traffic across the network, while prioritizing the automatic mitigation of events to minimize the impact
to our customers during events.
In this role you:
•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.

About the team
Within AWS Networking, the Backbone Enterprise, and Regional Engineering (BERE) organization is
responsible for the design, implementation, and operations of a wide array of networking infrastructure
that provide global connectivity between all AWS Regions and edge locations.
BERE provides the massive scale required to support our AWS customers and internal services, via a
network that experiences 70% growth annually. In addition, they have teams that are responsible for the design and operation of our global corporate office and Data Center network, allowing tens of thousands of Amazonians to perform their daily tasks in support of our customers.

AWS Global Connectivity and Network Availability (GCNA) Videos:
•Working at AWS in the GCNA Team - Meet Robert, VP:
•Working at AWS in the GCNA Team - Meet Xiaonan, Sr. Systems Development Engineer:

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Minneapolis, MN, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- •A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or relevant degree/experience.
- •4+ years of professional software development experience in a similar environment.
- •3+ years of programming/scripting experience with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell or Ruby.
- •3+ years of experience in monitoring, troubleshooting and resolving system and software components.
- •3+ years of experience deploying and operating Linux, and operating system fundamentals.
- •2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- •Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- •Strong, object-oriented design and coding skills.
- •Proficient at designing software systems, from high-availability large-scale distributed systems to your application’s object model.
- •Experience with high scalable distributed architectures

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