Software Development Engineer, CloudFront

Amazon • Seattle, WA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

AWS Infrastructure Services is responsible for the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure, ensuring continual access to innovation for customers by maintaining data centers, servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment. The team works on challenging problems with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain. This role involves joining a diverse team of engineers, specialists, and managers to collaborate across AWS, delivering high standards for safety and security, and providing infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost. The culture is inclusive, welcoming bold ideas and empowering individuals to own them to completion. Specifically, AWS CloudFront is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer for critical Infrastructure and Customer Observability initiatives. The role involves working on systems with global scale daily, solving hard problems, building reliable, scalable, low-cost systems for a growing customer base, and constantly shipping features that drive innovation in the CDN market, delivering a highly secure platform for various use cases including video from the edge.

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Design and architect new systems from scratch or enhance existing infrastructure, owning the technical direction from conception through deployment. Define system requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and make critical architectural decisions that impact CloudFront's global infrastructure.
• Mentor and guide team members in solving complex technical challenges with elegant, scalable solutions. Conduct design reviews, provide technical coaching, and raise the engineering bar across the team.
• Drive strategic initiatives to improve security posture and availability of CloudFront's infrastructure. Identify systemic risks, propose innovative solutions, and lead cross-team efforts to implement improvements at scale.
• Participate actively in both hands-on development and rigorous code reviews.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code while ensuring team output meets production standards for performance, security, and reliability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across CloudFront to align infrastructure roadmap with business priorities and customer needs.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed