Software Development Engineer, CloudFront Client Acceleration

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re 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 we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles.

You’ll 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 you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

CloudFront is one of AWS' largest services, at the center of almost every major Internet event. For sporting events such as the Super Bowl, game launches, movies, or TV, there's a tremendous of work that goes on behind the scenes to ensure the data is transferred with high performance and efficiency.

If you enjoy solving challenging problems with unparalleled scale, this is the team for you!

The CloudFront Client Acceleration team is looking to rapidly expand to focus on new initiatives to optimize the performance and availability of all users when connecting to edge locations.

If you ever watch a stream and encounter buffering, or are downloading something slower than usual - there's a reason for that and most often our team is working on the problem.

This includes building new solutions to automatically mitigate DDoS attacks and traffic flashcrowds in realtime, at traffic levels that would normally lead to major impact.

We are also improving communication via new protocols and web servers, built with the primary objective to handle all communication efficiently and with high performance.

The team faces hard challenges at scale to solve these problems, and we depend on high collaboration and innovation to work together to get there.

This also means everyone on the team will embrace diving into new areas, such as probabilistic data structures, machine learning, and AI.

Key job responsibilities

We :

• Are a fast-growing, agile and collaborative group of technologists from diverse backgrounds.
• Are inventors and owners, building new technologies and improving existing ones.
• Enjoy the prototyping and tinkering stages, as well as the rigor of making solutions production-ready.

You :

• Are comfortable in an agile environment and understand the importance of working / developing iteratively.
• Enjoy being part of a strong team of technologists and collaborating with them to build BIG things.
• Readily embrace new academic research, machine learning, or AI.
• Take ownership and do what it takes to get the job done.
• Want to create services at a massive scale used by millions of people every second.
• Are naturally curious about how operate at scale and think of ways to constantly improve those .
• Learn from others and help grow those in your team to achieve their best.

About the team

Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.

If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Work / Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.

When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences.

Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
30+ days ago