Software Development Engineer Intern Jobs in Puyallup, WA

The AWS Networking organization is hiring, and we're looking for talented Software Development Engineers (SDE) to join our team. Within Networking, we're confronting and solving complex and high-stake challenges. Our teams support the design of connectivity between the hundreds of AWS location and thousands of services.

As a member of the Backbone Engineering team, you will play a part in designing and architecting software feeding Network Engineers with critical information about AWS Backbone network performance.
This position is part of the Backbone organization where the team is responsible for building solutions that increase the scale, efficiency and resiliency of the AWS Backbone.
Ever wonder how Amazon manages the capacity of thousands of network links. How Amazon offers a highly available and scalable network

Engineers on this team collaborate with various teams to automate capacity allocation of AWS services workloads into the network. Engineers on this team make day-to-day and strategic decisions that carry a huge amount of responsibility and impact.
We strive to have a collaborative environment that impacts products and software across the company.
We use AWS technologies like: DynamoDB, SWF, S3, EC2, API Gateway, Lambda, ELB, RDS, and Athena
We are one of the many teams ensuring Amazon's network maintains 100% uptime
We are spread across Seattle, Dublin and Sydney
Our work has a direct impact on internal and external customers
We own and operate the infrastructure required to serve our customers
Why AWS
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Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious

Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empowers us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce; we celebrate the diverse ways we work

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Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture

When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.
Mentorship and Career growth
We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Key job responsibilities
Engineers build software and deploy products that enable the backbone to be utilized as an efficient service by our customers. Our customers utilize our services to visualize the performance of AWS Backbone network that crosses the entire plant, identify where in the real-world availability risk and congestion occur to plan and act to protect the network.
Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
Write high quality distributed system software
Enjoy seeing the impact of your work has on customers.
Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.
Take ownership and do what it takes to get the job done.
Learn from others and help grow those in your team to achieve their best.
About the team
We are a group of engineers that value diverse perspectives, collaborate freely, and believe we should help each other succeed (and fail) as a team

We love to learn and take ownership for our work, and we think you probably do too. As a member of our team, you will have opportunities to stretch your skills, whether that means resolving deep algorithmic knots in our backend services or designing a better user experience for our technical users. The various technical and functional partnership gives us the opportunity to extend our knowledges, individual skills and collective ownership.