Systems Development Engineer

Who you are

• You have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions
• You have experience working as a systems development engineer or in an enterprise environment, with hands-on native AWS experience and have implemented automated solutions across a variety of applications and systems
• You enjoy writing code and creating tools to manage your services. You're passionate about success
• You understand different people have different needs to be productive, and strive to develop self-service oriented solutions
• You have a passion for learning, designing, and building cloud computing systems for a diverse set of customers
• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
• Experience with PowerShell (preferred), Python, Ruby, or Java
• Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology

What the job involves

• We are looking for an experienced Systems Development Engineer with deep expertise in designing and supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure. You will be responsible for the design, implementation and quality of services you deliver to Amazonians
• The focus for this role is building, enhancing, and maintaining extensible services used across Amazon. These systems leverage serverless systems such as DynamoDB, Lambda, Secrets Manager, API Gateway, among others
• Systems Development Engineers at Amazon is a unique role which organically emerged as the company evolved. Inspiration for the Systems Development Engineer came from Systems Engineers who "built" unique technology to solve business and customer problems
• Systems Development Engineers perform traditional Systems Engineering and write or develop scripts, applications, or mechanisms to manage infrastructure. This role was created for the "builder" population of Systems Engineers who go beyond using basic tools and GUIs to implement infrastructure as code and even serverless systems
• This role requires scheduled after hours paging for high-severity events related to all of the team's services and systems. Paging availability is required for after-hours weekday, weekend and holiday coverage. The pager rotates throughout the team to balance the load
• Enterprise Engineering owns the key products, services, and tools Amazonians use to securely and reliably access corporate resources, communicate with one another, and collaborate with customers
• Enterprise Engineering builds services ranging from network access to customer-facing software to meet the needs of our number one customer: Amazon. All Amazonians and variable staff rely on our products at all Amazon Corporate, Customer Service, Fulfillment, Retail, and affiliate sites across the globe