Software Engineer, CloudFront
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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 and lead critical 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 an elegant geo-distributed platform to serve not only video from the edge, but a wide variety of use cases.
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
- Obsess over our customer’s needs and experience
- Enjoy the prototyping and tinkering stages, as well as the rigor of making solutions production-ready
If you:
- Enjoy seeing the impact your work has on real customers
- Are comfortable in an agile environment and understand the importance of working/developing iteratively
- Value being a part of a strong team of technologists and collaborating with them to build BIG things
- Take ownership and show determination to get the job done
- Want to create services at a massive scale used by millions of people
- Are naturally curious about how systems operate at scale and think of ways to constantly improve those systems
- Learn from others and help grow those in your team to achieve their best
...then this is the role for you!
Key job responsibilities
- Design for new systems from scratch or improving existing systems and own the technical direction for the initiative from start to finish.
- Play the technical advisor role by mentoring and guiding the team members to solve complex problems with simple solutions.
- Drive the big ideas to improve availability and performance initiatives across the organizations.
- Involve in both coding and code reviews.
About the team
Our team's charter is:
We build and manage the components like CloudFront Core Routing, Anycast Routing, L4LB, Traffic Director, DNS and Backbone Intelligent Routing.
The services are built using variety of technologies like Rust, C/C++, Java, eBPF XDP, Kinesis, Lambda, DynamoDB, ElasticCache etc.
Experience in one or more of these technologies along with real world practices on the software engineering principles and fundamentals are ideal for this role.
The candidate will have the opportunity to work on one or more services that handled the traffic for the events like Cricket World Cup, FIFA World Cup, Thursday Night Football etc.
AWS Cloudfront is looking for experienced Software Development Engineer to join our team and lead critical 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 an elegant geo-distributed platform to serve not only video from the edge, but a wide variety of use cases.
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
- Obsess over our customer’s needs and experience
- Enjoy the prototyping and tinkering stages, as well as the rigor of making solutions production-ready
If you:
- Enjoy seeing the impact your work has on real customers
- Are comfortable in an agile environment and understand the importance of working/developing iteratively
- Value being a part of a strong team of technologists and collaborating with them to build BIG things
- Take ownership and show determination to get the job done
- Want to create services at a massive scale used by millions of people
- Are naturally curious about how systems operate at scale and think of ways to constantly improve those systems
- Learn from others and help grow those in your team to achieve their best
...then this is the role for you!
Key job responsibilities
- Design for new systems from scratch or improving existing systems and own the technical direction for the initiative from start to finish.
- Play the technical advisor role by mentoring and guiding the team members to solve complex problems with simple solutions.
- Drive the big ideas to improve availability and performance initiatives across the organizations.
- Involve in both coding and code reviews.
About the team
Our team's charter is:
We build and manage the components like CloudFront Core Routing, Anycast Routing, L4LB, Traffic Director, DNS and Backbone Intelligent Routing.
The services are built using variety of technologies like Rust, C/C++, Java, eBPF XDP, Kinesis, Lambda, DynamoDB, ElasticCache etc.
Experience in one or more of these technologies along with real world practices on the software engineering principles and fundamentals are ideal for this role.
The candidate will have the opportunity to work on one or more services that handled the traffic for the events like Cricket World Cup, FIFA World Cup, Thursday Night Football etc.
