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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'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 challengesUtilizing hands-on technical skills to partner with team members and be comfortable diving into the fray as neededBuilding systems to maintain good \"fleet hygiene\" and hardware lifecycle managementIdentifying and developing processes, and tools to address top operational issuesAs a member of the CloudFront team, you will:Operate a business with global infrastructure and customers at a massive scaleOwn one of the lowest latency and highest throughput services in all of AWSWork closely with a great team of software developers and principal engineersUnderstand what it takes to grow and operate a global business at scaleThe CloudFront team:Is a group of technologists from diverse backgroundsObsesses over our customer's needs and experienceLoves building new innovative technologies and improving our existing onesWears multiple hats. 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