Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network that securely delivers videos live streams web content applications and APIs to customers globally with low latency high transfer speeds all within a developerfriendly environment. Our mission is to build and operate a better and secure Internet. Our team writes software which works flawlessly for millions of transactions every second and exabytes of data. Every day we innovate and solve problems at unprecedented scale.
This is a unique opportunity to influence product direction as part of building nextgeneration change propagation and cache invalidations systems. We are looking for an engineering leader to innovate and solve the hardest problems in scale security availability and performance. This leader will own control plane change propagation and invalidations aspects of the service. As our service continues to grow the challenge is to scale by another order of magnitude using a wide spectrum of technologies ranging from C Rust Java and many AWS internal services. This leaders responsibilities will include all aspects of the service experience: designing and building the software delivering on customer performance and scale expectations and operational excellence. Selfability to build teams and directly work and manage junior and senior engineers along with a focus on operational and engineering excellence is a must. If you are interested in living every day at the forefront of scale and innovative technologies you will enjoy Amazon CloudFront!
Why should you join us
* It is the right time to join. We are undertaking major transformation of our Control Plane services.
* This is a unique opportunity to truly influence one of the most scalable services on earth.
* Its rare to work in a job that will have direct effect on billions of individuals small startups up and Fortune 500 companies. Each second or millisecond saved per transaction results in millions or billions saved.
Key job responsibilities
* Own propagation of customer configurations across CloudFront control and data planes.
* Own cache Invalidations system across CloudFront control and data planes.
* Lead and grow the Change Propagation and cache Invalidations engineering team.
* Build and drive the adoption of nextgeneration Change Propagation and Invalidations.
About the team
AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS)
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