EdgeLink as part of Amazon Traffic Engineering manages internet ingress for Amazon retail and non-retail customer experiences. Our mission is to safeguard Amazon's digital presence through world-class internet ingress management and security measures. We strive to enhance customer experiences by providing responsive, secure, and resilient content delivery networks and edge computing solutions. By offering comprehensive services for deploying, operating, and securing our global infrastructure, we ensure uninterrupted service availability and empower Amazon to deliver exceptional value to its customers worldwide.
We are building the next-generation real-time streaming analytics platform to understand and safeguard Amazon’s global traffic. Processing billions of requests and petabytes of data daily, our systems power observability, security, and ML-driven anomaly detection. Our work is foundational to the availability, performance, and trustworthiness of Amazon’s customer-facing products.
If you’re passionate about solving complex problems at scale and driving architectural decisions in a high-impact domain, you’ll feel right at home.
The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise—including in machine learning—strong leadership skills, and a proven ability to drive cross-organizational alignment. Experience with applying ML techniques to streaming data, anomaly detection, traffic modeling, or predictive analytics is highly valued. You are a champion of engineering excellence, continuously raising the bar on quality, maintainability, performance, and resilience of large-scale data platforms. You’ll help shape the product vision, define long-term strategy, and drive outcomes that make a global impact.
There are no limits to the contribution and influence this role offers — come make history with us.
Key job responsibilities
Lead the design and development of scalable, real-time streaming systems that process high-throughput traffic data.
Architect and implement data pipelines and analytics frameworks that enable ML-based anomaly detection and traffic intelligence.
Partner with scientists and ML engineers to productionize models and build feedback loops for continuous learning.
Drive technical direction, make key architectural decisions, and own end-to-end solutions from concept to production.
Set best practices for coding, testing, deployment, and operations of distributed systems.
Mentor and guide junior engineers, conduct design reviews, and foster a high bar for technical excellence.
Collaborate cross-functionally with infrastructure, security, and product teams to influence roadmap and priorities.
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit
https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
