Real-Time CDN Routing Engineer – Global Scale

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSU program

401(k) matching

Paid time off and parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking engineers for CloudFront Routing & Capacity Engineering to design and operate systems that route traffic across 400+ edge locations. You will own end-to-end data pipelines, latency measurements, and real-time routing decisions that impact streaming quality globally.

Join a team building real-time, scalable infrastructure, working across DNS, load measurement, and capacity planning for live events.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) experience.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in CS, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

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

3+ years software development

2+ years design/architecture

1+ years distributed systems

OO design

1+ years programming languages (C#, C\

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Mathematics

Tools

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking engineers for CloudFront Routing & Capacity Engineering to design and operate systems that route traffic across 400+ edge locations. You will own end-to-end data pipelines, latency measurements, and real-time routing decisions that impact streaming quality globally.

Join a team building real-time, scalable infrastructure, working across DNS, load measurement, and capacity planning for live events.