2 months ago
Herndon, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain highly available, scalable distributed systems for Route 53 DNS infrastructure across more than 50 global locations.
- Lead technical initiatives for Private DNS, DNS Firewall, DNS resolver, health checks, security services, traffic management, and routing capabilities.
- Own the full software development lifecycle from architecture and implementation through deployment and production operations while maintaining a 100% availability SLA.
- Collaborate with AWS teams to deliver integrations and troubleshoot complex issues involving databases, networking, distributed systems, numerical analysis, and security.
- Mentor team members and raise technical standards through code reviews, design discussions, and engineering best practices.
- Improve system scalability toward processing millions of requests per second using XDP/eBPF and increase operational efficiency through GenAI tools and automation.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 2 years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems for reliability and scaling.
- Programming experience in at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design.
- Preferred: 3+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Preferred: experience with network protocols such as DNS, DHCP, or TCP, or experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems with strong analytical skills.
- Experience with XDP/eBPF is a plus.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, an employee assistance program, mental health support, a medical advice line, and flexible spending accounts.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units may be included in the overall Amazon package.
- This position is based in the Amazon Route 53 team’s Herndon, Virginia office.
- The base salary range is $143,700.00-$194,400.00 USD annually.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.