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Software Development Engineer, CloudFront Routing

Amazon· CloudFront Routing & Capacity Engineering
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Seattle, WA$143.7k - $194.4kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Software Development Engineer role within AWS CloudFront Routing & Capacity Engineering. Focus on real-time distributed systems, DNS traffic steering, latency-based routing, and capacity planning to determine which edge location serves each request across 400+ edge locations globally.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build real-time distributed systems and algorithms that determine how CloudFront routes traffic across hundreds of edge locations
  • Own data pipelines end-to-end: real-time load measurement, latency collection, and traffic placement signals from design through production operations
  • Author design documents, lead technical reviews, and drive architectural decisions for your area
  • Investigate routing anomalies by tracing traffic decisions through multiple system layers to root cause
  • Collaborate with networking, capacity planning, and DNS teams to improve customer outcomes
  • Drive operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, automation, and runbooks
  • Participate in on-call rotations, responding to incidents with sound judgment
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, design guidance, and hands-on problem solving

Qualifications

  • 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

Skills

Required:Real-time distributed systemsData pipelinesArchitecture and design reviews
Nice to have:On-call incident response

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
  • Basic Life & AD&D insurance with option for Supplemental life plans
  • EAP, Mental Health Support
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Sign-on payments and RSUs (part of compensation)
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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