Network Development Engineer
Amazon· Operations, IT, & Support Engineering
Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$136k - $184kFull-timePosted yesterday
About the role
Network Development Engineer to join the AWS GCNA-D (Global Connectivity and Network Availability) EDGE team, focusing on design, operation, and deployment of large-scale networks, with emphasis on internet connectivity between Amazon data centers, services, and the external world. Role involves network sustaining engineering, deployment, automation collaboration, and documentation to ensure scalable, secure, and cost-efficient network infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Create and implement changes on the network according to our change management standards.
- Work closely with our automation teams in defining the tools that allows us to scale at higher volume.
- Lead network projects in the areas of networking sustaining engineering, network deployment/implementation, network scaling, technology refresh, best practices application, and/or network optimization.
- Maintain Amazon Web Services’ next generation networks for significant AWS customers by providing critical network support to diagnose, mitigate impact, and resolve large-scale networking events.
- Operate and troubleshoot network routing, interconnectivity, platforms, performance, and configurations issues; including necessary low-level application interaction, Unix systems, and new age networking software tools.
- Drive and support innovation from Top of Rack to the Network Border, and everything in between.
- Partner with our broader Network/Infrastructure organization in the areas of network engineering, configurations standards, and tools.
- Work closely with our Network/Systems/Software Engineering teams to ensure fast, smooth roll-out of new designs and products, as well as, assist with deployment and sustaining of networking software tools.
- Maintain standards across the networking toolset and ensure that we are fully compliant to those standards and policies.
- Deliver simple, sustainable, and repeatable solutions and processes.
- Collaborate with the highest tier escalation engineers/resolvers.
- Create and review documentation and process regarding network implementation/deployments, recurring issues, new standard operating procedures, knowledge transfer material, etc.
Qualifications
- 4+ years of major internet routing protocols experience
- 4+ years of working in a Linux/Unix environment experience
- 4+ years of automation scripting using Python, Bash, Shell and/or Perl experience
Skills
Required:Major internet routing protocolsLinux/UnixAutomation scripting
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and life insurance options
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parential leave
- RSUs and sign-on payments
- comprehensive benefits as listed in the job description
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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