Lead AWS engineer - Global edge infrastructure

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 month
Duration: 12 monrths
Location: 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.