Amazon CloudFront is one of the fastest growing, lowest latency, and highest throughput services in all of AWS. CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment. We bring the Internet closer to end users, speeding up the user experience.CloudFront is integrated with AWS - both physical locations that are directly connected to the AWS global infrastructure as well as other AWS services. CloudFront enables multiple services including AWS Shield for DDoS mitigation, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing or Amazon EC2 as origins for your applications, and Lambda@Edge to run custom code closer to customers' users and to customize the user experience. Amazon CloudFront uses a global network of edge locations to cache and route requests to the best possible location based on known latency, available capacity, and many other factors.Amazon CloudFront's System and Site Reliability Engineering team is looking for an experienced System Development Engineer to build critical service reliability and efficiency functions that ensure massively scaled, fault-tolerant and globally distributed service for our end users.Opportunities with CloudFront include:* Leading change to develop simple, elegant solutions to complex operational or reliability challenges* Utilizing hands-on technical skills to partner with team members and be comfortable diving into the fray as needed* Building automation to maintain software and hardware life cycle management* Identifying and developing processes, automation, and software changes to address top operational issuesAs a member of the CloudFront team, you will:* Operate an AWS business with globally distributed servers and customers at a massive scale* Own one of the lowest latency and highest throughput services in all of AWS* Work closely with a great team of system and software developers, principal engineers* Understand what it takes to grow and operate a global business at AWS scale* Be in charge of the complete software development life cycle, defining, prioritizing, designing, building, and testing new featuresThe CloudFront team:* Is a group of technologists from diverse backgrounds* Obsess over our customer's needs and experience* Loves building new innovative technologies and improving our existing ones* Wears multiple hats. We enjoy the prototyping and tinkering stages, as well as the rigor of making solutions production-ready* Is fast-growing, agile and collaborativeWe are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Seattle, WA, USA- 3+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience- 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience- 4+ years of systems development in an IT or data center environment experience- 4+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience- 2+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience- Knowledge of at least one modern programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Perl- Experience leading the design, build and deployment of complex and performant (reliable and scalable) software solutions in production- 1+ years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Bash/Perl) experience- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build