Lead AWS Engineer

emagine is seeking a Lead AWS Engineer with deep expertise in Global Edge Infrastructure to strengthen a public-facing platform serving millions of users worldwide.

Start: ASAP or within 1 monthDuration: 12 monrthsLocation: Stockholm, 2–3 days onsite/week

What we’re looking for

A seasoned Software Engineer who has run or built a global, high‑traffic webstore and understands what it takes to operate a platform used across 5 continents.

You should have:

• Strong frontend awareness (JavaScript, React) — essential for understanding modern web delivery.

• Experience building resilient, peak‑proof systems that survive Black Friday-level traffic.

• A passion for security and real experience defending against sophisticated attacks.

This is a deep specialist role focused on global edge delivery, performance, and protection — not a general backend or observability position.

Core Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and optimize global edge architecture on AWS.

• Own high-traffic CloudFront distributions (performance tuning, caching, routing).

• Build and manage AWS WAF rules for threat detection and mitigation.

• Develop infrastructure with AWS CDK (TypeScript).

• Ensure resilience, scalability, and low latency during extreme traffic peaks.

• Implement defenses against large-scale attacks (DDoS, abusive patterns).

• Standardize and automate global public infrastructure.

• Collaborate with engineering teams on secure, high-performing web delivery.

Must-Have Expertise

• End-to-end ownership of large-scale, global, internet-facing systems.

• Experience running platforms with millions of users and strict uptime SLAs.

• CloudFront expert-level experience.

• AWS WAF expert-level experience.

• Strong engineering skills with AWS CDK + TypeScript.

• Proven handling of major traffic events and real production incidents.

Highly Valuable

• Experience with commercial/consumer high-volume platforms.

• Advanced caching, edge performance optimization, origin shielding.

• Security engineering at the CDN/edge layer.

• Automation and standardization of public infrastructure at scale.