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Posted date: Apr 21, 2026
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Location: Seattle, WA
Estimated salary: $197,750
Range: $168,100 - $227,400
Description
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.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and architect new systems from scratch or enhance existing infrastructure, owning the technical direction from conception through deployment. Define system requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and make critical architectural decisions that impact CloudFront's global infrastructure.
- Mentor and guide team members in solving complex technical challenges with elegant, scalable solutions. Conduct design reviews, provide technical coaching, and raise the engineering bar across the team.
- Drive strategic initiatives to improve security posture and availability of CloudFront's infrastructure. Identify systemic risks, propose innovative solutions, and lead cross-team efforts to implement improvements at scale.
- Participate actively in both hands-on development and rigorous code reviews.
- Write high-quality, maintainable code while ensuring team output meets production standards for performance, security, and reliability.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across CloudFront to align infrastructure roadmap with business priorities and customer needs.
About the team
The CloudFront Infrastructure Service Team ensures high availability of CloudFront's connectivity to customer origins. We maintain global infrastructure using secure, high-throughput, and cost-effective hardware platforms.
Our diverse team of technologists prioritizes customer needs, innovates technologies, and balances creative prototyping with rigorous production development.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Extended Qualifications
- 5+ 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually