Software Development Engineer, Perimeter Protection; Anti-DDoS), NFW

Software Development Engineer, Perimeter Protection (Anti-DDoS), NFW

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AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. We support all AWS data centers and the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on challenging problems with thousands of variables, and we are looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, and operations managers. Your collaboration will help deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers in an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas.

We build everything from low‑level packet inspection hardware and software to customer‑facing AWS services and globally distributed systems that mitigate the world’s largest and most sophisticated attacks. You will help develop new AWS services that enhance our customers’ ability to protect web applications against evolving threats and attacks.

• Design and implement high‑throughput, low‑latency distributed systems that detect and mitigate DDoS attacks in real time, protecting AWS customers at massive scale.
• Develop deep packet inspection and traffic analysis solutions to identify malicious patterns and enforce network security policies across the AWS perimeter.
• Build and optimize data‑plane and control‑plane components for AWS Network Firewall, ensuring resilience under adversarial conditions.
• Own features end‑to‑end—from gathering customer requirements through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams including networking, security, and applied science to research and deliver innovative anti‑DDoS countermeasures.
• Contribute to system architecture decisions that balance performance, cost, and security trade‑offs at cloud scale.
• Drive operational excellence through automation, monitoring, alarming, and participation in on‑call rotations to maintain service availability.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and technical documentation to maintain high engineering standards and mentor peers.

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non‑internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.

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Salary range:  –  USD annually (Seattle, WA, USA). Compensation includes sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Benefits include health insurance, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D, EAP, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more at .