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# Software Development Engineer II, CloudFront Routing

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $165,200.0 - $223,600.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Cloudfront, Software Applications, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Content Delivery Networks, Code Review, Computer Programming, Information Engineering, Software Design Documents, Software Design Patterns, Distributed Systems, Domain Name System (DNS), Perl (Programming Language), Routing, Object-Oriented Software Development, Software Engineering, Multithreading, Software Distribution, Web Content, Build Management, Information Technology, Build Process, Video Streaming, Software Coding, Software Version Control, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** June 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/9153C5470D0B4D0C9FC99D868F9C81D1/job/

## About the Role

* 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
 * 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
 * 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
 * 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
 * 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
 * Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
 * Experience programming with at least one software programming language, * 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
 * Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

## Description

Amazon CloudFront is Amazon's global content delivery network, delivering content from 400+ edge locations across 90+ cities in 48 countries. CloudFront accelerates static and dynamic web content, video streaming, APIs, and software distribution for customers ranging from startups to the world's largest media companies. It handles live events at scale (Thursday Night Football, FIFA World Cup, Prime Video) where milliseconds of latency and seconds of availability directly impact customer experience.

We are the Routing & Capacity Engineering team within CloudFront. We build the systems that decide which POP serves each request: DNS traffic steering, real-time load measurement, latency-based routing algorithms, and capacity planning. When a viewer in Tokyo presses play, our systems determined in milliseconds which edge location would serve that stream. We operate at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, and data engineering, solving problems like: how do you optimally place traffic when latency, capacity, and cost pull in different directions? How do you react when a network event shifts traffic patterns across a continent?

You:

 * Want to build systems that operate at global scale with visible customer impact
 * Are comfortable with ambiguity. Problems arrive as "traffic isn't behaving right," not as specs
 * Are curious about networking, CDN architecture, and how the internet actually works
 * Think about scale: real-time decisions across hundreds of locations, dozens of signals
 * Own your systems end-to-end. Design, build, deploy, monitor, improve
 * Learn fast and help others grow, * 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

A day in the life

You design and build the systems that decide where CloudFront routes traffic. One week you are building a new real-time pipeline that measures load across hundreds of POPs and feeds routing decisions at sub-second latency. The next you are implementing an algorithm that places prefixes onto ACE devices using latency experiment data, increasing cache utilization by double digits. You author design docs, lead reviews, ship code, and validate results in production. When routing doesn't behave as designed, you dig in - but the core of the role is building new systems and improving existing ones, not firefighting. You work across data pipelines, routing algorithms, and distributed infrastructure at global scale.


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