DESCRIPTION

As a Senior Systems Development Engineer of the Backbone Enterprise, and Regional Engineering (BERE) team, you will provide expertise to expand solutions that support the backbone of the entire AWS global network. In this role, you will interact with network development engineers, software engineers, senior applied scientists and engineers to understand requirements and extend software-defined networks (SDN). You will grow to lead design reviews, aligning engineering efforts across an organization towards an overall technical strategy. In addition, you will support and scale your solutions to meet the ever-growing demand of customer use.

AWS Global Connectivity and Network Availability (GCNA) is the backbone that connects the global AWS network. Focused on routing and securing 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.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Come join us and enjoy the satisfaction that comes from successfully building software to scale and provide insights about one of the world’s biggest networks.

Working at AWS on the GCNA Team:
- Meet Robert, VP: https://youtu.be/8v5i42FL02w
- Meet Xiaonan, Sr. Systems Development Engineer: https://youtu.be/58Q1SyGZ4qg

Key job responsibilities
You will be a hands-on technical lead, who is responsible for all phases of the project development cycle. You will work with customers to gather requirements, generate technical designs, and carry the project from implementation through validation and operations. In the role you'll need to lean on your leadership and communication skills to mentor other engineers and provide training and support for our technologies. Your experience working in systems development or in an enterprise environment will help us implement automated solutions across a variety of applications and systems.
You’ll also:
• Lead in building complex systems and successfully delivering them to customers.
• Use your problem-solving skills, ability to understand and scope solutions, work across teams to drive solutions.
• Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
• 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.
• Set the technical direction for future products working across an organization of at least 3 teams.
• 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.
• Contribute to documentation of process and procedures.
• Actively grow the team through leading candidate interviews.
• Participate in an on-call rotation with your team.


A day in the life
Engineers in the GCNA 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.


About the team
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.