CloudFront Routing Dataplane SDE - Global Latency Focus

Amazon Inc.; Dublin; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Dublin seeks a Software Development Engineer for CloudFront Routing Dataplane. You will design and implement high-performance networking components at global scale, handling millions of requests with low latency and strong security guarantees.

The role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, and performance engineering, requiring collaboration across teams and ownership from design to operations.

Qualifications

• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development.
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance networking systems that operate in the CloudFront edge network.
• Develop and optimize layer 4 packet processing pipelines for ultra-low latency and high throughput.
• Enhance TCP/IP stack behavior for performance, congestion control, and resilience at scale.
• Build systems for real-time DDoS detection, mitigation, and traffic shaping.
• Design and evolve Anycast routing strategies to improve global traffic distribution and availability.
• Own critical dataplane services end-to-end: design, implementation, deployment, and operations.
• Analyze large-scale network telemetry to identify performance bottlenecks and failure modes.
• Drive operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, and rapid incident response.
• Contribute to architectural decisions that influence global traffic engineering strategies.

Skills

Professional software development

Job description

Amazon in Dublin seeks a Software Development Engineer for CloudFront Routing Dataplane. You will design and implement high-performance networking components at global scale, handling millions of requests with low latency and strong security guarantees.

The role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, and performance engineering, requiring collaboration across teams and ownership from design to operations.