Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS CloudFront

Amazon is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS CloudFront in London, United Kingdom. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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The posting mentions Java and C among its tools and skills.
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Senior software development engineer to design and scale edge video services and infrastructure for AWS CloudFront.

JavaC

Do you enjoy watching the latest movies, television shows, or sporting events on your computer, tablet or smartphone? Do you hate waiting for your pages to load or your show to re-buffer? Do you want to contribute to that deliver a flawless experience in serving video from the edge? Good - us too.

AWS Cloudfront is looking for experienced Senior Software Development Engineers to join our team in beautiful London, United Kingdom. We offer comprehensive relocation and benefit packages.

At AWS Cloudfront, working on with global scale is a daily part of the job. We solve hard problems. We build reliable, scalable, low-cost that serve our ever-growing customer base. We are constantly shipping features that drive innovation in the CDN market. We deliver an elegant geo- platform to serve not only video from the edge, but a wide variety of use cases.

We:
- Are a fast-growing, agile and collaborative group of technologists from diverse backgrounds

- Are inventors and owners, building new technologies and improving existing ones

- Obsess over our customer’s needs and experience

- Enjoy the prototyping and tinkering stages, as well as the rigor of making solutions production-ready

You:
- Enjoy seeing the impact your work has on real customers

- Are comfortable in an agile environment and understand the importance of working/developing iteratively

- Enjoy being part of a strong team of technologists and collaborating with them to build BIG things

- Take ownership and do what it takes to get the job done

- Want to create services at a massive scale used by millions of people

- Are naturally curious about how operate at scale and think of ways to constantly improve those

- Learn from others and help grow those in your team to achieve their best

Basic qualifications

- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience in professional, non-internship software development
- Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience in development in the last 3 years

Preferred qualifications

- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems, or experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
- Knowledge of web services technologies such as SOAP, HTTP, WSDL, XSD, and REST
- Experience bringing technology products to market in a fast-paced environment
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems, or experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience with written and verbal communication and presentation
- Can work proactively and independently, meet deadlines, and deliver on projects and tasks
- Strong programming skills, preferably in Rust, C, or Java with 3+ years experience
- Experience with low level optimisations and eBPF
- Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
- Experience building large-scale web services backed by cloud services, such as AWS
- Experience operating large scale systems

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How we rate this

Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS CloudFront at Amazon rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
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Key facts

Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS CloudFront is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in GB, London.
The job was posted on April 29, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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