Software Development Engineer, AWS Route 53 Global Resolver, AWS Route 53 Global Resolver

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. AWS Route 53 Resolver team has an open position for Software Development Engineer for Cloud security service development in Arlington, VA / Herndon, VA / Seattle, WA, USA. We’re looking for a mid-level Software Development Engineer to join the Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver team. Our team builds and operates a globally distributed DNS resolution service that enables AWS customers to securely resolve internal and external DNS names across regions, networks, and hybrid environments. You will help ensure that DNS queries are resolved securely, reliably, and within milliseconds for enterprise customers running workloads across VPCs, on-prem, and edge locations. As an SDE, This is a rare opportunity to build a new AWS service from its preview launch toward global scale. You will work across the entire stack—control plane, data plane, API surfaces, and deep integrations with AGA, EC2 Networking, DNS Firewall, and Route 53 core systems. You will also help drive the system architecture, spearhead best practices that enable a quality product, and help coach and develop junior engineers. A successful candidate will have an established background in engineering large scale networking software, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. At Amazon Web Services, we like to “work backwards”: start by understanding what customers need and using that to guide our software engineering. We’re looking for a software engineer who is experienced in listening to customers, synthesizing their needs, and rapidly iterating our services to quickly put features into customers’ hands. Our best ideas become even better when we get feedback from real customer use. The sooner we can get that feedback, the more quickly we can grow. This position will be part of the Amazon Route 53 team. Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) service offered by Amazon Web Services. We operate in over 50 locations worldwide and provide advanced functionality such as Private DNS, DNS Firewall, DNS resolver and integration with a plethora of AWS services. On top of that, we offer fast change propagation with a 100% availability SLA. Our service is quickly growing and we're expanding in multiple directions: adding new features and functionality to our DNS services, better traffic management, new AWS integrations, improving our health check capabilities, and expanding with new security services and routing space. We work on deep, technical problems that span a variety of core topics in computer science ranging from databases to networking to distributed systems to numerical analysis to security. We are looking for a developer who will lead the team and who feels strongly not only about building good software but also about running that software in the real world. Amazon in a fast-paced environment where we “Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History.” On a typical day, software engineers might whip up a