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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # System Development Engineer - AWS Cloudfront, AWS Cloudfront, Platform Services - **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc. - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States - **Salary:** $129,200.0 - $174,800.0 - **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Systems Engineering, Build Automation, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Computer Programming, DDoS Mitigation, Software Design Patterns, Linux, Fault Tolerance, Firmware, Python (Programming Language), Windows PowerShell, Scrum Methodology, Systems Development Life Cycle, Ruby, Software Engineering, Low Latency, Bare Metal, Golang - **Published:** August 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=0121986ae615e19b ## About the Role * 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience * 1+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience * 7+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience * Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems) * Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby * Experience with Linux/Unix * Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology * 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience ## Description Amazon CloudFront is one of the fastest growing, lowest latency and highest throughput services in all of AWS. CloudFront is a fast content delivery (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 physical locations that are directly connected to the global infrastructure, as well as other services. CloudFront enables multiple services including 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 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 Engineering team is looking for an experienced Systems Development Engineer to build and develop new hardware and provisioning platforms, and build automation and tooling of critical service reliability and efficient functions that are secure, massively scale, are fault-tolerant, and global. 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 systems to maintain good "fleet hygiene" and hardware lifecycle management * Identifying and developing processes, and tools to address top operational issues. As a member of the CloudFront team, you will: * Operate a business with global infrastructure 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 software developers and principal engineers * Understand what it takes to grow and operate a global business at scale. The CloudFront team: * Is a group of technologists from diverse backgrounds * Obsesses 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 collaborative., The System Development Engineer will design, build, secure, implement, code, automate, deploy, and root-cause complex system issues accross many different types of Linux bare metal servers. You will own the availability, security, and performance of everything Operating system downwards, including the hardware, firmware, and components. You will automate and scale our the hardware lifecycle process to be efficient, durable, and fault tolerant. 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