• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Amazon Web Services is seeking a talented and passionate Senior Software Development Engineer to join our Load Balancing team. This engineer will have a significant impact on our business as they build mission critical tooling and abstract away complex workflows enabling our customers to safely operate the world’s most scalable infrastructure.

This engineer will build user facing tooling, experience and interactions for a management interface to mission critical Load Balancing systems. They will be responsible for creating the right abstractions and guardrails that enable customers to configure, deploy, and manage mission critical capacity at a greater velocity while improving our services.

We are building a suite of robust management applications that provide significantly improved control, visibility and predictability for Amazon’s load balancing requirements worldwide.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer for Load Balancing, you’ll have a unique opportunity to shape the development of our network. You’ll work on Amazon’s hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs. You will design and implement software systems supporting a scalable, robust, virtualized network. You’ll strive for simplicity, demonstrate significant creativity and high judgment, and contribute towards intellectual property through patents.

Key job responsibilities
Solving problems at scale excites you.

You don’t implement specs from analysts and architects – you talk to your customers and design solutions to their problems. You automate and innovate.

You believe that the craft of software engineering is about writing code right the first time. For you, code reviews and automated testing are not chores – they’re a core part of writing great software.

You like to deliver fast iterative solutions focused on deliver real customer value early.

You don’t throw your code over the wall. You launch it, own it, support it and make it incrementally better for the benefit of your customers.

You have high judgment and creativity; ability to decompose complex problems into simple solutions.

You enjoy developing others, actively mentoring individuals and helping us develop as a team.

You enjoy working in a flexible, fast-paced, collaborative team environment.

About the team
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• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

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