Software Development Engineer, CloudFront

About the role

AWS CloudFront is looking for experienced Software Development Engineers to join our team for critical Infrastructure and Customer Observability initiatives. You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Key job responsibilities

• Design scalable systems from the ground up or enhance existing CloudFront infrastructure, owning the complete technical lifecycle from architecture decisions through implementation and deployment
• Drive technical strategy for initiatives that impact millions of customers globally, making key architectural decisions that shape the future of CloudFront
• Guide team members through complex technical challenges, promoting elegant solutions over complicated ones through hands-on coaching and knowledge sharing
• Conduct design reviews and share best practices to elevate the team's technical capabilities and maintain high engineering standards
• Identify and implement improvements to CloudFront's security posture and availability, proposing and driving adoption of new technologies and tools
• Lead initiatives that strengthen system resilience, reduce operational burden, and improve customer experience
• Write production code for critical features and infrastructure improvements, actively participating in the development process
• Participate in code reviews to ensure high code quality standards across the team, providing constructive feedback and guidance
• Balance coding responsibilities with architectural guidance, spending significant time in both design and implementation phases
• Directly influence the reliability and performance of one of AWS's largest edge services, serving trillions of requests daily

About The Team

The CloudFront Infrastructure Service Team's mission is to take the best care of builders to have high availability of CloudFront's connectivity to customers' origins, build and maintain the global infrastructure for our customers using secure, high throughput and cost effective hardware platforms with a responsibility to improve on it. The team is a group of technologists from diverse backgrounds. They obsess over their customer's needs and experience, love building new innovative technologies and improving their existing ones, and wear multiple hats. They enjoy the prototyping and tinkering stages, as well as the rigor of making solutions production-ready.

Basic Qualifications

• 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
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ 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