Software Development Engineer, Data Center Builder Tools

Salary: £42,000 - 77,000 per year

Requirements:

• We require experience in professional, non-internship software development.
• We require experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design.
• We require experience with the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations, or experience in development in the last 3 years.
• We require experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling, or experience building complex software systems successfully delivered to customers.
• We require experience programming with at least one software programming language, or experience in professional, non-internship software development.
• We prefer a bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent.
• We prefer experience with the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• We prefer a bachelors degree or equivalent in Computer Science.
• We prefer experience in embedded development in C/C++, or experience programming with at least one software programming language.
• We prefer experience with general troubleshooting and debugging of hardware, or experience in development in the last 3 years.

Responsibilities:

• We design and build real-time middleware and runtime components, including the data-exchange layer, type system, and communication patterns that connect distributed control applications across languages and hardware.
• We integrate industrial automation platforms and hardware protocols, and build device drivers that bridge them onto the platform.
• We build the bridge to the cloud by designing reliable metric publication, command handling, and telemetry from the edge into AWS with the right delivery guarantees for each data class.
• We work at the boundary of distributed and real-time systems, ensuring bounded latency, predictable behavior, and graceful degradation when connectivity is lost.
• We architect and implement runtime and real-time middleware that runs on embedded and edge controllers as well as in the cloud, with focus on determinism, reliability, and resource efficiency.
• We own the edge-to-cloud communication path, designing how telemetry, metrics, and commands flow between devices and AWS services with appropriate quality of service, backpressure, and store-and-forward behavior.
• We engineer for real-time correctness by reasoning about latency budgets, throughput, and failure modes in a distributed system adjacent to physical control loops.
• We raise the engineering bar through strong testing, performance benchmarking, code review, and operational excellence.
• We collaborate across hardware, controls, security, and operations partners to turn ambiguous requirements into robust, shippable software.
• We mentor more junior engineers and help shape the roadmap for the runtime and middleware layer.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Architect
• Backend
• C#
• Cloud
• Embedded
• Flow
• Frontend
• Hardware
• Support
• Java
• Network
• Security
• EtherCAT
• Profinet
• Python
• Rust
• Web

More:

We are AWS Infrastructure Services, the team that designs, plans, delivers, and operates AWS global infrastructure and keeps the cloud running. Our Data Center Builder Tools team develops tooling for device frameworks and device lifecycle management in AWS data centers, including frontend and backend services used by internal development teams and on-site customers. We support all AWS data centers and the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that keep customers connected. We offer an inclusive culture, mentorship and career growth, work/life balance, and the chance to work on challenging problems with a diverse team across software, hardware, network, supply chain, security, and operations.

last updated 34 week of 2026