Senior System Development Engineer - AWS Networking System Test, Release Engineering and System Test

About the role

Are you ready to build the systems that power one of the largest cloud platforms in the world? Developers everywhere rely on Amazon Web Services for storage, compute, and virtualized services, and our success depends on world-class network and server infrastructure operating at massive scale with rapid integration of emerging technologies. We're looking for a Senior System Development Engineer to develop automated test systems for the networking products that form the building blocks of Amazon's cloud infrastructure.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure - in other words, we keep the cloud running. We support every AWS data center and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that give our customers continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the hardest problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain, and we're looking for talented people who want to help solve them.

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

As a Senior System Development Engineer in Networking, you'll have a unique opportunity to shape the development of our network - a fundamental contributor to the success of AWS that lets us scale existing services and launch new ones. The Release Engineering and System Test organization owns end-to-end, system-level qualification of platforms and OS, the final gate before software is released to production. In this role, you'll build autonomous test systems that qualify new platforms and releases at scale.

This is a hands-on builder role at the intersection of software engineering, test infrastructure, and network systems. You'll develop production-quality automated test systems, integrate them with lab and orchestration services, and drive the reliability, efficiency, and operability of the qualification pipeline that every release depends on.

You'll relentlessly improve the stability of the existing network by developing test automation for new hardware and software platforms, working closely with our Network Engineering teams to understand features and technical implementation and to build test suites that emulate real-world environments.

The ideal candidate has spent time in a similar role. Experience with industry-leading automation and CI/CD tools and with IXIA traffic generators (or similar) is a distinct advantage. You strive for simplicity and demonstrate significant creativity and high judgment. Your expertise is both deep and broad - you're hands-on, producing detailed technical work as well as high-level systems architecture.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automated test systems that scale across platforms and network roles and operationalize qualification suites in CI and nightly regression pipelines
• Integrate test systems with lab infrastructure and orchestration services for device lifecycle management
• Own the reliability and maintainability of your components - eliminate flakiness, drive down qualification runtimes, and continuously improve the reliability of the test systems
• Show creativity and initiative to improve product test coverage and effectiveness
• Debug complex, cross-layer failures spanning test infrastructure, software, hardware and and drive root-cause analysis
• Partner with software, hardware and networking teams release engineering teams to simulate complex real world network designs
• Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring of junior engineers.

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering
• Experience building tools for building, testing, releasing or monitoring
• Experience with Linux/Unix
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 8+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 8+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems at scale
• Knowledge of Layer 2/3 networking protocols, including hands-on experience with load balancers, switches, routers, etc.
• Experience qualifying networking hardware platforms and managing cross-team release-qualification dependencies.
• Familiarity with network test tools, traffic generators (e.g., IXIA/Spirent)

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

USA, CA, Cupertino - 173,900.00 - 235,200.00 USD annually