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AWS Global Accelerator is a Software Defined Networking service which improves network performance for a range of products including AAA video games, video streaming platforms, VOIP, Education and technology platforms, and social media applications

Our technology powers features for AWS services such as S3 and AWS VPN.
The AWS Global Accelerator data plane team is looking for software engineers to solve challenging, distributed systems and networking problems, deliver new customer features, all while maintaining this Tier-0 global service. Our team builds and maintains a packet processor application which routes and load-balances every single packet ingressed by any AWS edge location. You should be somebody who puts the customers' needs firsts and has strong interest in computer networking and protocols

The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in computer networking and preferably systems-level (e.g. C/C++) programming experience. Knowledge of DPDK and NGINX are a plus!
Successful candidates will enjoy computer networking and deep packet analysis, distributed systems, low-level, systems programming and have deep analytical skills and excellent communication skills

You thrive in a highly collaborative, creative, analytical, and fast-paced environment and are comfortable interacting with highly technical software and networking development teams.
In this role you will have opportunities to engage with AWS customers and other AWS service owners, propose and design new ideas, and best of all develop and deliver new features to the delight of our customers.
If you are passionate about distributed systems, writing clean code, constant learning, and invigorated to work on a platform that runs critical internet workloads for AWS and its customers you should apply for this role. You will become an important part of running our global software defined networking service and learn what it takes to grow and operate a global business as AWS scale.
Key job responsibilities
- Design for new systems from scratch or improving existing systems and own the technical direction for the initiative from start to finish.
- Mentor and guide the team members to solve complex problems with simple solutions.
- Drive the big ideas to improve availability and performance of AGA Data Plane - How we route packets within the service towards our customer endpoints.
- Develop high quality testable and maintainable software and participate in code reviews.
About the team
AWS Global Accelerator Data Plane team owns defining, designing and maintaining the core of how we route traffic within the AWS Global Accelerator service. We write the code that defines traffic handling, endpoint selection, DDoS protection.
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