Principal Software Engineer, Traffic Engineering
About The Position
Amazon Compute Technologies (ACT) builds innovative managed compute and networking solutions that empower Amazon Software Engineers to build and operate services for Amazon's customers that are secure, highly available, and easy to scale. We identify and support the foundational infrastructure capabilities, tools, and datasets needed to support rapid global expansion of Amazon's SOA infrastructure, built on top of AWS technologies. Our team focuses on robust and scalable architecture patterns and engineering best practices, driving adoption of ever-evolving and cutting-edge AWS technologies. As a Principal Engineer (PE), you will take ownership of in-house service mesh architecture for centralized traffic management and SOA policy implementation at Amazon. Our team builds and operates innovative hosted compute platforms that empower Amazon's retail engineers to build architectures for their business solutions that are secure, available, productive, and cost efficient. Our vision is to make Amazon's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) more manageable and developers more productive by building an ecosystem of managed abstractions that allow Amazon Retail developers to focus on their unique business logic and business operations, knowing that security, authentication, authorization, load balancing, throttling and routing "just work" and are always consistent with Amazon best practices. If you are interested in empowering thousands of Amazon most critical business processes with Service Mesh features such as load balancing, routing, serialization, network traffic shaping, or caching, then this job is for you. Given the size and impact of ACT's customer base, we understand the importance of making our development tools "just work". We make it easy to build high quality, reliable systems that support Amazon's evolving architectural needs. Come help us create and evolve the abstractions that make developing software at Amazon even more powerful and flexible!
Requirements
- 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture)
Responsibilities
- take ownership of in-house service mesh architecture for centralized traffic management and SOA policy implementation at Amazon
- build and operate innovative hosted compute platforms that empower Amazon's retail engineers to build architectures for their business solutions that are secure, available, productive, and cost efficient.
- make Amazon's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) more manageable and developers more productive by building an ecosystem of managed abstractions that allow Amazon Retail developers to focus on their unique business logic and business operations, knowing that security, authentication, authorization, load balancing, throttling and routing "just work" and are always consistent with Amazon best practices.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Industry
General Merchandise Retailers
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
