Senior Software Development Engineer, Elastic Load Balancing

AWS Infrastructure Services is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for their Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) team. This role is crucial in developing and maintaining AWS's global infrastructure, specifically focusing on the ELB service that enables customers to build large-scale highly available services.

The position is within the Network Load Balancer (NLB) team, which is responsible for health checking of targets for L4 Load Balancer products including NLB, GWLB, Falcon, and VPC Lattice. You'll be working on Pulsar's system that provides timely and accurate health reporting of targets at scale, which is essential for routing layers to make decisions about incoming request direction.

As a senior engineer, you'll lead and mentor team members while maintaining hands-on involvement in architecture and implementation. The role involves working with cutting-edge technology to solve complex problems like handling traffic spikes and designing fault-tolerant load balancing solutions.

The position offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to work on systems that operate at massive scale. AWS values work-life harmony and maintains an inclusive culture that embraces diversity and continuous learning.

Key technical challenges include:

• Designing and building next-generation ELB services handling terabytes of data daily
• Implementing scalable solutions for rapid traffic management
• Developing high-availability load balancing systems
• Creating robust health checking systems for cloud infrastructure

The role combines technical leadership, hands-on development, and strategic thinking to help shape the future of AWS's critical infrastructure services. You'll be part of a team that's essential to maintaining AWS's position as the world's leading cloud platform.