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Amazon Software Engineer, CloudFront, CloudFront Routing in Sydney, Australia
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 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
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
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.
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
5+ years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design experience
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
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.
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