Sr. Software Dev Engineer, CloudFront

About the role

AWS CloudFront is seeking experienced Software Development Engineers to join our team for critical Infrastructure and Customer Observability initiatives. You will work on systems with global scale, solving hard problems, building reliable, scalable, low-cost systems, and delivering features that drive innovation in the CDN market.

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.

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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Skills

• Full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Benefits

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