Software Development Engineer, Amazon Route 53, Route 53 Resolver Firewall & Profiles
Core
Design, build, and operate cloud-native DNS security and resource management services (Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall and Route 53 Profiles) to protect millions of VPCs from malicious domain activity and enable centralized DNS configuration management.
Role type
Mid-level Software Development Engineer (Networking/Security)
Builds
High availability enterprise-scale DNS Firewall service and Route 53 Profiles for multi-account environments
Domain
Cloud networking, DNS security, distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Large-scale distributed systems engineering, networking software development, system architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling
Preferred skills
Full software development life cycle experience, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, operations
Technologies
Route 53 Resolver, VPC networking, Private Link, AWS RAM, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Organizations
Responsibilities
Design and build advanced detection features for DNS threats, enhance configurability for customers, architect next-generation protections including agentic attack prevention, drive system architecture, spearhead best practices, coach and develop junior engineers, investigate DNS threat patterns to improve detection accuracy, prototype new filtering capabilities, instrument code to report security metrics, collaborate with partner teams on integration designs, code features for centralized profile management, draft proposals for new protection capabilities
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities