Senior Software Development Engineer, Cloudfront

DESCRIPTION
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
We build and manage the components like CloudFront Core Routing, Anycast Routing, L4LB, Traffic Director, DNS and Backbone Intelligent Routing.
You will have the opportunity to work on one or more of these services that handled the traffic for several million concurrent viewers for the live events like Cricket World Cup, FIFA World Cup, Thursday Night Football etc.
You will also be strong coder with deep understanding of distributed systems.
Skillset: One or more programming language - Rust (preferred), C/C++, Java.
Preferred Expertise: Networking background. eBPF XDP knowledge is an added advantage.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Sydney, NSW, AUS
BASIC 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
PREFERRED 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
Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
IDE statement:
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, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes.