Amazon System Development Engineer - AWS Cloudfront

Job is more than 1 month old.

Job Details

Posted date: Aug 07, 2024

There have been 2 jobs posted with the title of System Development Engineer - AWS Cloudfront all time at Amazon.

Location: Seattle, WA

Estimated salary: $158,750
Range: $116,300 - $201,200


Description



Amazon CloudFront is one of the fastest growing, lowest latency and highest throughput services in all of AWS. CloudFront is a fast content delivery (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment. We bring the Internet closer to end users, speeding up the user experience. CloudFront is integrated with – both physical locations that are directly connected to the global infrastructure, as well as other services. CloudFront enables multiple services including Shield for DDoS mitigation, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing or Amazon EC2 as origins for your applications, and Lambda@Edge to run custom code closer to customers’ users and to customize the user experience. Amazon CloudFront uses a global network of edge locations to cache and route requests to the best possible location based on known latency, available capacity and many other factors. Amazon CloudFront’s Engineering team is looking for an experienced Systems Development Engineer to build and develop new hardware and provisioning platforms, and build automation and tooling of critical service reliability and efficient functions that are secure, massively scale, are fault-tolerant, and global for our end users.

Opportunities with CloudFront include:

- Leading change to develop simple, elegant solutions to complex operational or reliability challenges

- Utilizing hands-on technical skills to partner with team members and be comfortable diving into the fray as needed

- Building systems to maintain good “fleet hygiene” and hardware lifecycle management

- Identifying and developing processes, and tools to address top operational issues.

As a member of the CloudFront team, you will:

- Operate an business with global infrastructure and customers at a massive scale

- Own one of the lowest latency and highest throughput services in all of AWS

- Work closely with a great team of software developers and principal engineers

- Understand what it takes to grow and operate a global business at scale.

The CloudFront team:

- Is a group of technologists from diverse backgrounds

- Obsesses over our customer’s needs and experience

- Loves building new innovative technologies and improving our existing ones

- Wears multiple hats. We enjoy the prototyping and tinkering stages, as well as the rigor of making solutions production-ready

- Is fast-growing, agile and collaborative.



Qualifications

- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

- 1+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

- 7+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience

- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)

- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby



Extended Qualifications

- Experience with PowerShell (preferred), Python, Ruby, or Java

- Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $116,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.



Check out other jobs at Amazon.