Edge Networking Engineer - Content Delivery Low Latency

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon CloudFront is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer to join our Routing Dataplane team in Seattle, USA. You will design and implement high-performance networking systems at global scale, delivering content with low latency and high availability.

You will own dataplane services end-to-end and work on DDoS mitigation, TCP/IP tuning, and real-time telemetry analysis. The role requires 3+ years of software development experience, 2+ years in architecture or design, and a

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years designing or architecting scalable systems.
• 1+ years of software engineer experience.
• Bachelor's degree in CS, engineering, math, or related field.
• Experience programming in at least one language.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance networking systems for the CloudFront edge network.
• Develop and optimize layer 4 packet processing pipelines for ultra-low latency.
• Enhance TCP/IP stack for performance, congestion control, and resilience.
• Build systems for real-time DDoS detection, mitigation, and traffic shaping.
• Design and evolve Anycast routing strategies to improve global traffic distribution.
• 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

Software development

Architecture design

Programming

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Amazon CloudFront is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer to join our Routing Dataplane team in Seattle, USA. You will design and implement high-performance networking systems at global scale, delivering content with low latency and high availability.

You will own dataplane services end-to-end and work on DDoS mitigation, TCP/IP tuning, and real-time telemetry analysis. The role requires 3+ years of software development experience, 2+ years in architecture or design, and a