Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Amazon CloudFront (Routing Dataplane)
Amazon · Dublin, Ireland · Software Development
About this role
Amazon is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in Dublin, Ireland. The posting calls out experience with Python, C, Bash, AWS.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Dublin, Ireland
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Mar 30, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersDo you wonder what happens in the milliseconds between a user clicking play and content appearing on their screen? Do you want to build the systems that make that possible — at global scale, processing millions of requests per second? Amazon CloudFront is looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer to join our Routing Dataplane team in Dublin, Ireland. CloudFront is one of the world's largest content delivery networks. Working on systems with global scale is a daily part of the job. We build reliable, scalable, low-cost systems that serve our ever-growing customer base. We are constantly shipping features that drive innovation in the CDN market. The environment is fast-paced, collaborative, and full of hard problems worth solving. This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, and performance engineering. You will work on systems that operate at global scale processing millions of requests per second and delivering content with high availability, low latency, and strong security guarantees. You will build and optimize critical dataplane components including layer 4 packet processing, TCP/IP stack enhancements, DDoS detection and mitigation, and Anycast-based routing systems. Key job responsibilities - Design and build high-performance networking systems that operate in the CloudFront edge network…