Software Development Engineer, Data Center Builder Tools

Overview

In this role you design and build real-time middleware and runtime software that connects industrial hardware to the cloud, powering AWS Data Center operations. You’ll work on high-performance data planes, protocol integrations, and edge-to-cloud data flow, shaping reliability, latency, and scalability in a cross-functional team. You solve complex timing-sensitive problems at the boundary of hardware and cloud services. This is an opportunity to impact how control systems and data centers operate at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• inclusive culture
• mentorship & career growth
• work-life balance and flexibility
• diverse experiences encouraged
• ownership and accountability
• competitive compensation (implied)

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement high-performance runtime and real-time middleware for edge and cloud environments
• Develop industrial protocol and hardware integrations (e.g., IEC 61131-3, EtherCAT, PROFINET, Modbus, OPC-UA, IO-Link) and cross-language data exchange
• Design edge-to-cloud data paths for telemetry, metrics, and commands with QoS, backpressure, and store-and-forward behavior
• Analyze latency budgets, throughput, and failure modes in distributed, timing-sensitive systems
• Raise engineering quality with unit/integration/on-hardware validation, performance benchmarking, and code reviews
• Collaborate with hardware, controls, security, and operations teams to translate requirements into shippable software
• Mentor junior engineers and influence the runtime and middleware roadmap

Key requirements

• Experience in professional software development (non-internship)
• Proficiency in Java, C++, or C# with OO design
• Experience with SDLC including coding standards, reviews, source control, builds, testing, and operations
• Experience designing or architecting scalable systems or complex software delivered to customers
• Proficiency in at least one programming language
• Strong problem-solving skills and hardware-timing awareness

• strong problem-solving
• cross-functional collaboration
• mentoring and technical leadership
• Rust, C/C++, or Python
• Industrial automation platforms and hardware protocols (OPC-UA, IEC 61131-3, EtherCAT, PROFINET, Modbus, IO-Link)
• DDS/Zenoh or similar real-time middleware

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