Software Dev Engineer, Amazon CloudFront (Routing Dataplane)

Do you wonder what happens in the milliseconds between a user clicking play and content appearing on their screen Do you want to build the systems that make that possible at global scale processing millions of requests per second

Amazon CloudFront is looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer to join our Routing Dataplane team in Seattle
USA. CloudFront is one of the worlds largest content delivery networks. Working on systems with global scale is a daily part of the job. We build
reliable scalable low-cost systems that serve our ever-growing customer base. We are constantly shipping features that drive innovation in the
CDN market. The environment is fast-paced collaborative and full of hard problems worth solving.

This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems networking and performance engineering. You will work on systems that operate at global scale processing millions of requests per second and delivering content with high availability low latency and strong security guarantees. You will build and optimize critical dataplane components including layer 4 packet processing TCP/IP stack enhancements DDoS detection and mitigation and Anycast-based routing systems.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design planning delivery and operation of all AWS global other words were the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers storage networking power and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain and were looking for talented people who want to help.

Youll join a diverse team of software hardware and network engineers supply chain specialists security experts operations managers and other vital roles. Youll 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 youll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and build high-performance networking systems that operate in the CloudFront edge network
- Develop and optimize layer 4 packet processing pipelines for ultra-low latency and high throughput
- Enhance TCP/IP stack behavior for performance congestion control and resilience at scale
- Build systems for real-time DDoS detection mitigation and traffic shaping
- Design and evolve Anycast routing strategies to improve global traffic distribution and availability
- Own critical dataplane services end-to-end: design implementation deployment and operations
- Analyze large-scale network telemetry to identify performance bottlenecks and failure modes
- Drive operational excellence including monitoring alerting and rapid incident response
- Contribute to architectural decisions that influence global traffic engineering strategies

A day in the life
You will work on systems that operate at massive global scale solving complex problems in networking distributed systems and real-time traffic
engineering. You will analyze network telemetry data to find and fix performance bottlenecks ship improvements to packet processing pipelines
and collaborate with teams across AWS to influence how content is delivered secured and optimized across the internet.

- 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
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 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

- 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

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

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. 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. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP 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 WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually