Software Development Engineer | Edge Control Plane, EdgeLink

EdgeLink as part of Amazon Traffic Engineering manages internet ingress for Amazon retail and nonretail customer experiences. We safeguard Amazons digital presence through worldclass internet ingress management and security measures. We strive to enhance customer experiences by providing responsive secure and resilient content delivery networks and edge computing solutions. By offering comprehensive services for deploying operating and securing our global infrastructure we ensure uninterrupted service availability and empower Amazon to deliver exceptional value to its customers worldwide.

We are building automation systems that simplify the configuration and management of CDN infrastructure at scale. Our mission is to provide scalable reliable selfservice APIs that allow internal teams to configure deploy and monitor CDN behavior across thousands of internet domains. We sit at the critical junction of availability performance and developer productivity enabling fast secure delivery of content to customers globally.

The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in building scalable APIs and automation systems has experience operating largescale critical services that is used by multiple teamsdemonstrating deep ownership crossteam collaboration and a strong focus on customer impact at scale. He/She is a champion of engineering excellence and improves quality consistency maintainability performance and security with every code commit.

There are no limits to the contribution and impact this role can have so get ready to make history!

Key job responsibilities
Design develop and maintain backend services and APIs that automate CDN configuration and deployment workflows.
Build scalable selfservice tools to manage domain routing caching rules and networklevel policies.
Ensure systems are highly available secure and easy to operate through welldefined automation and observability.
Collaborate with infrastructure networking and security teams to align on architecture and requirements.
Participate in oncall rotations and support for production systems.




About the team
Our team is embarking on a journey to develop the next generation of website traffic management software that protects customers experience. Your work will be highly visible and is instrumental in helping Amazon serve record breaking amounts everyday including flagship events such as Prime Day. If you love building high performance software thats focused on bestinclass networking data processing security and leverages AWS technologies we have the job for you.

3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
Experience designing and building backend APIs and services with a focus on automation.
Familiarity with distributed systems and eventdriven architectures.
Understanding of RESTful APIs configuration management and CI/CD pipelines.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.