Systems Engineer, Route 53 DNS Services

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Managing millions of DNS queries, answering them in sub‑x ms, building software that deploys to thousands of hosts, achieving 100% durability. These are just a few of the numbers that give you a sense of the scale of the exciting problems you will find every day working with Route 53 DNS Services at the AWS core.

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations—from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IOT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Key Responsibilities

• The Route 53 team are looking for talented engineers who are motivated to solve complex challenges, yet are not constrained by “how things are usually done” and are willing to decompose and reinvent systems, processes, and tools.
• If you possess that rare mix of depth in Operations, Networking, and Systems Engineering then we are waiting for your application.
• Drive the design and implementation of new services.
• Use your Linux and networking skills to troubleshoot, innovate fixes and workarounds.
• Dive deep to root cause a customer issue.
• Investigate why a metric is trending the wrong way.
• Consult with the top engineers at Amazon.
• Discuss radical new approaches to automate operational issues.
• Implement automation to scale operational efficiencies.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in building scripts, tooling, and automation for large-scale computing environments.
• Experience in systems administration (Linux or Windows).
• Experience with automation, testing, or monitoring framework development.
• Experience working with scripting languages like Python, Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Bash, Shell, or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud computing technologies.
• Experience in networking and troubleshooting.
• Experience automating routine tasks.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.