Software Engineer, ECS

Description

• Are you familiar with Service Meshes, Container Networking, and Ingress Traffic Management? They're the dedicated infrastructure layers that facilitate seamless communication between services and microservices

Description

• Are you familiar with Service Meshes, Container Networking, and Ingress Traffic Management? They're the dedicated infrastructure layers that facilitate seamless communication between services and microservices — making it easy to connect, monitor, secure, and control services at scale. Here's your opportunity to be part of the AWS Container Networking offerings that power millions of customer workloads: **ECS Service Connect**, **ECS Service Gateway**, and **AWS Cloud Map**. Our networking stack is built on three foundational pillars: - **Envoy Proxy & xDS Control Plane (Service Connect)** — At the core of our service mesh lies Envoy, a versatile, open-source proxy deployed as a sidecar to intercept and manage east-west traffic. Our team builds the Envoy Management Server (xDS) control plane that configures thousands of Envoy proxies in real-time — enabling zero-code load balancing, retries, circuit-breaking, observability, and traffic routing across microservices. - **Elastic Load Balancing Integration (Service Gateway)** — For north-south ingress traffic, we orchestrate AWS Elastic Load Balancers (ALB & NLB) on behalf of customers. Service Gateway automates the provisioning and lifecycle management of load balancers, listener rules, target groups, TLS certificates, and security groups — abstracting away complex networking infrastructure so customers can expose their ECS services to the internet with a single API call. - **AWS Cloud Map (Service Discovery)** — The foundational registry that powers service discovery across the stack. Cloud Map provides DNS-based and API-based service registration and resolution, enabling ECS services to find and communicate with each other without hard-coded endpoints. It serves as the backbone for both Service Connect's internal routing and Service Discovery's DNS resolution. Key job responsibilities - Design, develop, and operate highly available, scalable distributed systems for container networking and service mesh infrastructure - Build and extend the Envoy Management Server (xDS) control plane — implementing CDS, EDS, LDS, and RDS APIs that configure thousands of Envoy proxies in real-time for east-west service mesh traffic - Design and build ELB orchestration systems for Service Gateway — automating ALB/NLB provisioning, listener rule management, target group bindings, TLS certificate association, and multi-service bin-packing to optimize north-south ingress traffic and customer costs - Develop and scale Cloud Map as the central service registry — building DNS-based and API-based discovery, namespace management, health checking integration, and cross-account service resolution - Design and implement APIs for ingress traffic management (Service Gateway), service-to-service communication (Service Connect), and service discovery (Cloud Map) - Drive operational excellence — on-call, COE investigations, deployment safety, and production health - Build AI-powered operational tooling — develop skills, agents, and automation that improve diagnostics, accelerate root-cause analysis, and enhance operational metrics and alarming - Design and implement customer self-service capabilities — enabling customers to diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve networking issues independently through better APIs, dashboards, and guided workflows - Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Managers, partner AWS service teams (ELB, Route 53, ECS Scheduler), and open-source communities - Influence technical direction through design documents, code reviews, and architectural decisions A day in the life Your morning might start with a code review for a teammate's control plane change, followed by a quick check on the deployment pipeline — yesterday's release is baking in gamma and the canary metrics look healthy. Mid-morning, you dive into a design document for a new feature. You sketch out the system interactions, identify edge cases, and post your proposal for team review. After lunch, you pair with a teammate to debug a subtle production issue. You trace the request flow end to end, reproduce it locally, and draft a fix. Later in the afternoon, you work on an AI-powered diagnostic skill you've been building — it correlates metrics, events, and logs to automatically surface root causes for common customer issues. You test it against a recent ticket and it correctly identifies a misconfigured timeout. Before wrapping up, you join a quick sync with a partner team to align on an API contract, then review the on-call dashboard — all green. Some days you're deep in Envoy internals tracing an HTTP/2 connection pooling issue; other days you're designing a customer-facing API or building automation that makes the next on-call shift smoother. No two days are the same, but the thread that ties them together is making container networking invisible — so customers can focus on their applications, not their infrastructure.

Basic Qualifications

• - 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 - 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience - 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience - 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience - Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field - Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications