Software Development Engineer II, CloudFront Routing

Amazon CloudFront is Amazons global content delivery network delivering content from 400 edge locations across 90 cities in 48 countries. CloudFront accelerates static and dynamic web content video streaming APIs and software distribution for customers ranging from startups to the worlds largest media companies. It handles live events at scale (Thursday Night Football FIFA World Cup Prime Video) where milliseconds of latency and seconds of availability directly impact customer experience.

We are the Routing & Capacity Engineering team within CloudFront. We build the systems that decide which POP serves each request: DNS traffic steering real-time load measurement latency-based routing algorithms and capacity planning. When a viewer in Tokyo presses play our systems determined in milliseconds which edge location would serve that stream. We operate at the intersection of distributed systems networking and data engineering solving problems like: how do you optimally place traffic when latency capacity and cost pull in different directions How do you react when a network event shifts traffic patterns across a continent

You:
- Want to build systems that operate at global scale with visible customer impact
- Are comfortable with ambiguity. Problems arrive as traffic isnt behaving right not as specs
- Are curious about networking CDN architecture and how the internet actually works
- Think about scale: real-time decisions across hundreds of locations dozens of signals
- Own your systems end-to-end. Design build deploy monitor improve
- Learn fast and help others grow

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 real-time distributed systems and algorithms that determine how CloudFront routes traffic across hundreds of edge locations
- Own data pipelines end-to-end: real-time load measurement latency collection and traffic placement signals from design through production operations
- Author design documents lead technical reviews and drive architectural decisions for your area
- Investigate routing anomalies by tracing traffic decisions through multiple system layers to root cause
- Collaborate with networking capacity planning and DNS teams to improve customer outcomes
- Drive operational excellence: monitoring alerting automation and runbooks
- Participate in on-call rotations responding to incidents with sound judgment
- Mentor engineers through code reviews design guidance and hands-on problem solving

A day in the life
You design and build the systems that decide where CloudFront routes traffic. One week you are building a new real-time pipeline that measures load across hundreds of POPs and feeds routing decisions at sub-second latency. The next you are implementing an algorithm that places prefixes onto ACE devices using latency experiment data increasing cache utilization by double digits. You author design docs lead reviews ship code and validate results in production. When routing doesnt behave as designed you dig in - but the core of the role is building new systems and improving existing ones not firefighting. You work across data pipelines routing algorithms and distributed infrastructure at global scale.

About the team
The CloudFront Routing & Capacity Engineering team owns how CloudFront routes traffic across 400 edge locations. We build the systems that decide which POP serves each request balancing latency capacity and cost in real-time. Our stack spans DNS traffic steering real-time load measurement pipelines latency-based routing algorithms and capacity planning for live events like Thursday Night Football FIFA World Cup and IPL. Routing decisions here execute in milliseconds and directly determine streaming quality for end users worldwide.

- 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
- 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
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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

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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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 CA Santa Clara - 165200.00 - 223600.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually