Network Dev. Engineer Ii, One Edge Platform

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Bellevue, WA · Operations, IT, & Support Engineering

The Network Development Engineer II role focuses on designing, building, and automating network infrastructure for Amazon's fulfillment and transportation sites. The role involves identifying technical solutions to improve network availability, reducing operational impact, and innovating infrastructure testing and deployment. While the role mentions knowledge of ML/LLM fundamentals as a basic qualification, the core responsibilities and primary focus are on traditional network engineering and automation, not AI/ML model development or deployment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identifying, developing, and delivering technical solutions that improve the availability of our network technologies.
  2. Partner with peer teams to collectively understand the customer problems and find technological solutions utilizing wired networking technologies.
  3. Define and meter the availability of our existing and future network solutions, ensuring they meet or exceed the needs of our customers.
  4. Identify and deliver solutions that reduce operational impact to customers and enable them with scalable, resilient, and cost optimized services.
  5. Dive Deep on complex problems that identify root causes of our customer impacts, developing and delivering corrective actions.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields
  • Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals, including transformer architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization techniques
  • Experience scripting languages and coding skills for one (1) or more of the following: Ruby, C/C++/C#, Node.JS, Java, Python, and PHP
  • 4+ years of professional experience in network design, implementation, and operations
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise networking infrastructure (BGP, OSPF, routing protocols)
  • Strong understanding of network fundamentals and protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, OSI Model)
  • 5+ years of experience troubleshooting complex network issues in multi-tier, high-availability environments

Nice to have

  • Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
  • 3+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • Experience with software-defined networking (SDN) and network automation tools
  • Knowledge of cloud networking and hybrid infrastructure integration
  • Experience with network monitoring, analytics, and observability platforms

What the JD emphasized

  • 4+ years of professional experience in network design, implementation, and operations
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise networking infrastructure (BGP, OSPF, routing protocols)
  • 5+ years of experience troubleshooting complex network issues in multi-tier, high-availability environments