Amazon Dev Center U.S., Inc. Looking For Sr. System Dev Engineer, Region Build Automation, AWS Route 53 at Illinois Full Time

4+ years of professional software development experience

3+ years of programming experience with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby

2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

Job summary

Do you want to work on hard software problems at a global scale? Are you passionate about continually improving the services you own? Come work for AWS Route 53!

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) service offered by Amazon Web Services. Our team tackles some of the hardest scalability, performance and availability challenges in the world. We process billions of DNS queries a day with very high availability. DNS is a Tier0 Networking service and the bar is very high. We are integral to all AWS services and interact directly with end-customers.

We operate in over 50 locations worldwide and provide advanced functionality such as latency-based routing (LBR), Private DNS, Geo DNS routing, DNS failover, and integration with a plethora of AWS services. On top of that, we offer fast change propagation with a 100% availability SLA.

Our services are growing rapidly and are expanding around the world. To meet our ever-growing needs, we are building a team that will work on new ways of deploying and operating our services at scale. If you’re interested in solving hard problems with software, eliminating manual effort, and passionate about delivering results then we want to hear from you!

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures within the organization, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

A day in the life

Conceptualize and create new tools and services utilized across multiple teams at AWS

Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automation and processes that are used by the entire team for development

Recommend and make changes for fully automating region build processes

Challenge conventional thinking; create innovative paths forward

Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions

Enable the growth of junior Developers and peers by mentoring them

Most importantly, thinking big on behalf of our customers

Experience working on TCP/IP networking, architecture, and core technologies (such as DNS, DHCP, HTTP, Routing, VPN)

2+ years of experience with common scripting or programming languages such as Python, BASH, or Ruby

Experience with DevOps environments and maintaining critical services

Strong distributed systems and web services design and implementation experience

Ability to track the health of our services, identify and fix problems on complex systems

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