Senior Software Development Engineer, CloudFront Control Plane, CloudFront

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 centres 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.

CloudFront is one of AWS' largest services, at the centre of almost every major Internet event. Our customers use CloudFront for fast and secure delivery of web/application content, on demand video/music and live event streaming. As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will lead the development of key initiatives, build and operate cutting edge features, delight customers and continue to scale to ever increasing heights. This is a unique opportunity to influence CloudFront technical direction as we build our next generation Control Plane services.

• Collaborate with experienced cross disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Provide technical guidance to your team, design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Drive big ideas to improve the availability and performance of the Cloud Front Control Plane team.
• Develop high quality, testable, and maintainable software.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high quality software.

As a Senior SDE you will solve challenging problems at Amazon and influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world. You will provide technical guidance to drive long term plans, mentor, scale others, build and create new products, features and services from scratch, while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years.

• Experience (non internship) in professional software development
• Experience in professional, non internship software development
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object oriented design

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

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