Senior Front End Engineer, CloudFront & WAF AX

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.

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network that securely delivers videos live streams web content applications and APIs globally with low latency and high transfer speeds in a developer-friendly environment. Together with AWS Global Accelerator (AGA) for optimized traffic routing AWS WAF for web application protection and AWS Shield for DDoS defense these services provide a comprehensive content delivery solution.

The CloudFront AGA WAF and Shield consoles serve as the primary customer entry points driving adoption and helping customers explore capabilities and visualize operations. Our team works closely with UX Product Management and engineers across control and data plane teams to solve customer problems and ensure seamless feature integration.

This is an exciting time to join as we build a unified experience across these services spanning both console and agentic interactions. This role offers the opportunity to shape product direction and define how customers interact with our content delivery and security suite through a cohesive integrated interface that encompasses traditional console workflows and AI-powered agentic experiences.

Key job responsibilities
In this role youll build agentic and frontend features and tools that our customers engage with on a daily basis to improve their experience using CloudFront WAF and Shield. This includes rapid prototyping converting designs into working user interfaces and agentic skills and building frontend experiences and tooling in the browser and on the command line. As part of the developer experience team youll be integral to the early planning stages of what our team delivers. Youll not only be expected to write code but also provide your perspective as a developer into improving the experience of our services for other developers.

An ideal candidate for this role is someone who is highly empathetic to developers and has an insatiable drive to get every detail right in order to deliver exceptional experiences. Customer obsession ownership strong judgment and communication skills long term technical vision and continuous focus on engineering and operational excellence are essential for success in this role. An ideal candidate will enjoy working in a highly collaborative fast-paced environment with a start-up atmosphere.

A day in the life
As part of a growing team you will have opportunities to mentor and coach other engineers. You would be responsible for implementing technology solutions that can scale at the rapidly growing pace of our customer and partner community. You consider usability accessibility and performance in the products you build and work backward from the customer to anticipate their needs. By working together on behalf of our customers we are building the future one innovative product service and idea at a time. Are you ready to embrace the challenge Come build the future with us.

- 4 years of non-internship professional front end web or mobile software development using JavaScript HTML and CSS experience
- 5 years of front-end developer creating prototypes or wire-frames for enterprise web applications or workflows experience
- Experience developing with MVC/MVM frameworks (e.g. AngularJS Vue)

- Knowledge of web services technologies such as SOAP HTTP WSDL XSD and REST
- Experience in a broad range of software design approaches and common UX patterns.
- Experience with AI/ML technologies

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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 VA Arlington - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually