Software Engineer- SRE Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Do you have a passion to innovate for a planet scale service that is core to all modern internet businesses and that too in a company that operates like a group of startups? This is an excellent opportunity to join one of Amazon's world-class team of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), work with some of the best and brightest while also developing your skills and career within one of the most dynamic, innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere.

Amazon CloudFront is a fast and highly programmable content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency and high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment. CloudFront uses highly efficient software algorithms using real-time data from billions of anonymous data points on Amazon as well as other internet properties to determine internet weather and route users to the most optimal locations for performance. Related CloudFront Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRaPw1tx6LA

The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is looking for experienced Software Development Engineers to build out automation of critical service reliability and efficiency functions that ensures massively scaled, fault-tolerant and globally distributed service for our end users. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will work across multiple software domains like caching, routing, control and maintain a big picture of how our systems work together and integrate with other AWS services. You will be a builder and not simply a maintainer. You will design and refine systems to improve the availability, latency, scalability and performance aspects of our service. Participate in resolving emergent service problems and build auto-mitigation and auto-healing to reduce the blast radius or prevent re-occurrence. You should be an engineer who is focused on developing systems written in Python, Java, C or a similar language and also have a comfortable understanding of Linux, networking and cloud services.

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer - Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation