Software Development Engineer II, Network Device Lifecycle Management

Amazon•Austin, TX

About The Position

Amazon Operations Technology is looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer to join our Imperium Network Device Lifecycle Management team in Austin. In this role you will be solving challenging problems and developing scalable, high-performing solutions that require minimal long term sustaining and development. Our team is accountable for software managing the lifecycle of network devices in global fulfillment centers; our systems span over 100,000 Amazonians and hundreds of thousands of IP enabled devices. In this role, you will partner with peer Software, System and Network Engineers globally to develop simple and efficient technology that guides Amazon’s fulfillment network. You will work with a wide variety of technologies and projects that range from third party enterprise solutions to open source and proprietary inventions. Technicians and Engineers worldwide will look to you for mentorship, guidance and solutions to complex business problems that are truly unique to Amazon. We value performance, simplicity, and scalability in our designs. In your day-to-day work you will focus on automation of complex tasks to allow our business to scale with customer demand, and let your fellow network engineers to focus on complex problems rather than mundane tasks. As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you will take your technical experience to create new and enhance existing frameworks for managing network devices' lifecycle at Amazon fulfillment centers, such as new device provisioning or software updates. These critical frameworks will make it faster and easier for customers to manage these network devices at scale. If you have a passion for network management applications, and making generic toolkits, this is an ideal position for you. This role will allow you to push the boundaries by thinking big of what customers can do by driving efficient and scalable solutions. You will be challenged to create OS agnostic services and tools, while also optimizing for performance and ease of use by customers. Ideal candidates will use their experience to clearly communicate and translate requirements into elegant solutions. You will work in a reactive, flexible and partnering peer environment. You will be a part of an agile development team following innovative best practices in software development where you will work on technical designs, architecture and coding. To build our applications, you will interact with network engineering teams to gather requirements, provide technical solutions and develop the software that are required in defining our next generation products. Our team exists to enable network engineers and technicians to self-serve manage the lifecycle of network devices running in all fulfillment centers. We are accountable for delivering application frameworks and foundational pieces that are critical for device management and we do so by showing the utmost customer obsession. As a part of Network Device Lifecycle Management team, you’ll get to interact and work with multiple teams to develop an ecosystem end to end covering product conception to shipping on the vast number of Amazon devices in the field.

Requirements

3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice To Haves

3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Responsibilities

create new and enhance existing frameworks for managing network devices' lifecycle at Amazon fulfillment centers, such as new device provisioning or software updates
work on technical designs, architecture and coding
interact with network engineering teams to gather requirements, provide technical solutions and develop the software that are required in defining our next generation products