System Development Engineer - AWS Cloudfront, AWS Cloudfront, Platform Services

Amazon CloudFront is one of the fastest growing, lowest latency and highest throughput services in all of AWS. CloudFront is a fast content delivery (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment. We bring the Internet closer to end users, speeding up the user experience. CloudFront is integrated with physical locations that are directly connected to the global infrastructure, as well as other services. CloudFront enables multiple services including Shield for DDoS mitigation, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing or Amazon EC2 as origins for your applications, and Lambda@Edge to run custom code closer to users and to customize the user experience. Amazon CloudFront uses a global network of edge locations to cache and route requests to the best possible location based on known latency, available capacity and many other factors.

About the role

The Amazon CloudFront Engineering team is looking for an experienced Systems Development Engineer to build and develop new hardware and provisioning platforms, and build automation and tooling for critical service reliability and efficient functions that are secure, massively scalable, fault-tolerant, and global.

• Lead change to develop simple, elegant solutions to complex operational or reliability challenges
• Utilize hands-on technical skills to partner with team members and be comfortable diving into the fray as needed
• Build systems to maintain good “fleet hygiene” and hardware lifecycle management
• Identify and develop processes and tools to address top operational issues

As a member of the CloudFront team, you will:

• Operate a business with global infrastructure and customers at a massive scale
• Own one of the lowest latency and highest throughput services in all of AWS
• Work closely with a great team of software developers and principal engineers
• Understand what it takes to grow and operate a global business at scale

About the team

The CloudFront team is a group of technologists from diverse backgrounds who:

• Obsess over our customer’s needs and experience
• Love building new innovative technologies and improving our existing ones
• Wear multiple hats — we enjoy the prototyping and tinkering stages, as well as the rigor of making solutions production-ready
• Are fast-growing, agile, and collaborative

Responsibilities

• Design, build, secure, implement, code, automate, deploy, and root-cause complex system issues across many different types of Linux bare metal servers
• Own the availability, security, and performance of everything from the operating system downward, including the hardware, firmware, and components
• Automate and scale the hardware lifecycle process to be efficient, durable, and fault-tolerant
• Ensure our servers are properly provisioned, patched, upgraded, and in service at all times

Requirements

• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 1+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 7+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems, and hands-on systems engineering experience
• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
• Experience with Linux/Unix
• Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology
• 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including:

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

Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

USA, WA, Seattle - $129,200.00 - $174,800.00 USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.