Global-Scale Cloud Routing Engineer

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon CloudFront is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join the Routing & Capacity Engineering team. You will design and build real-time distributed systems that decide how traffic routes across hundreds of edge locations, owning data pipelines end-to-end from load measurement to routing signals.

The role emphasizes on-call rotations, mentoring, and collaboration with networking, capacity planning, and DNS teams to improve customer experience at global scale.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for distributed systems.
• 1+ years of software development experience with at least one language.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Design and build real-time distributed systems and algorithms that determine how CloudFront routes traffic across hundreds of edge locations.
• Own data pipelines end-to-end: real-time load measurement, latency collection, and traffic placement signals from design through production operations.
• Author design documents, lead technical reviews, and drive architectural decisions for your area.
• Investigate routing anomalies by tracing traffic decisions through multiple system layers to root cause.
• Collaborate with networking, capacity planning, and DNS teams to improve customer outcomes.
• Drive operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, automation, and runbooks.
• Participate in on‑call rotations, responding to incidents with sound judgment.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design guidance, and hands‑on problem solving

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

Object-oriented design

Design patterns

Multithreading

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

C++

Java

C#

Perl

Job description

Amazon CloudFront is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join the Routing & Capacity Engineering team. You will design and build real-time distributed systems that decide how traffic routes across hundreds of edge locations, owning data pipelines end-to-end from load measurement to routing signals.

The role emphasizes on-call rotations, mentoring, and collaboration with networking, capacity planning, and DNS teams to improve customer experience at global scale.