Software Development Engineer II, CloudFront

About the role

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. Do you enjoy watching the latest movies, television shows, or sporting events on your computer, tablet or smartphone? Do you hate waiting for your pages to load or your show to re-buffer? Do you want to contribute to systems that deliver a flawless experience in serving video from the edge? Good - us too. AWS CloudFront is looking for experienced Software Development Engineer to join our team for critical Infrastructure and Customer Observability initiatives! At AWS CloudFront, working on systems with global scale is a daily part of the job. We solve hard problems. 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. We deliver highly secure platform to serve not only video from the edge, but a wide variety of use cases. Come join us and - Gain world class knowledge and expertise on designing, building and operating software services at AWS' scale - Build scalable systems to manage capacity at AWS. - Create, enhance, and run scalable autonomous services that observe the state of AWS applications and the global internet, make active decisions on performance issues, and inform AWS customers about those issues - Design and build advanced Machine Learning and AI algorithms. - Collaborate with and learn from world leaders in distributed systems and networking Key job responsibilities - Operate an AWS business with globally distributed servers and customers at a massive scale - Own one of the lowest latency and highest throughput services in all of AWS - Build solutions to manage capacity and Fleet hygiene - Work closely with a great team of system and software developers, principal engineers. - Understand what it takes to grow and operate a global business at AWS scale - Be in charge of the complete software development lifecycle, defining, prioritizing, designing, building, and testing new features
- 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 - Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field - Experience programming with at least one software programming language