Amazon Web Services (Route 53) is seeking an experienced software development engineer to join their organization at the Arlington Headquarters. We’re looking for an engineer who is experienced in listening to customers, synthesizing their needs, and rapidly iterating our services to quickly put features into customers’ hands.

Key job responsibilities
At Amazon Web Services, we like to “work backwards”: start by understanding what customers need and using that to guide our software engineering. 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.



A day in the life
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 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 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 services in the naming 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 an engineer 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.

We care about your career growth. We try to assign projects that will help each team member develop into a more well-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Our teams are dedicated to supporting new team members. They are a good mix of new and experienced engineers, creating the perfect environment for you to both mentor and be mentored. We all enjoy helping each other grow through one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews.

Amazon in a fast-paced environment where we “Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History.” On a typical day, software engineers might whip up a prototype to prove an idea, instrument code to report a new metric, talk with customers, code up a feature, or draft a proposal for a radical new idea.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA