Software Dev Engineer, Amazon CloudFront (Routing Dataplane)

Amazon • Seattle, WA

8d • $143,700 - $194,400 • Onsite

About The Position

This role is for a Software Development Engineer on the Amazon CloudFront Routing Dataplane team in Seattle, USA. CloudFront is a global content delivery network. The team builds reliable, scalable, and low-cost systems that serve a growing customer base and drive innovation in the CDN market. The environment is fast-paced, collaborative, and presents challenging problems. This position is at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, and performance engineering, working on systems that process millions of requests per second globally, delivering content with high availability, low latency, and strong security. Responsibilities include building and optimizing critical dataplane components such as layer 4 packet processing, TCP/IP stack enhancements, DDoS detection and mitigation, and Anycast-based routing systems.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance networking systems that operate in the CloudFront edge network
• Develop and optimize layer 4 packet processing pipelines for ultra-low latency and high throughput
• Enhance TCP/IP stack behavior for performance, congestion control, and resilience at scale
• Build systems for real-time DDoS detection, mitigation, and traffic shaping
• Design and evolve Anycast routing strategies to improve global traffic distribution and availability
• Own critical dataplane services end-to-end: design, implementation, deployment, and operations
• Analyze large-scale network telemetry to identify performance bottlenecks and failure modes
• Drive operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, and rapid incident response
• Contribute to architectural decisions that influence global traffic engineering strategies

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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior