System Development Engineer I, Intelligent Cloud Hosting (ICON)

Amazon; Asti; In loco; EUR 40.000 - 60.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A leading eCommerce company is seeking a System Development Engineer to join their team. This role involves designing and implementing solutions in a complex software environment and requires strong Linux and networking skills. Candidates should have experience in DevOps or SysOps and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. The ideal candidate will excel in problem solving and communication, working towards operational excellence.

Competenze

• 1+ years of DevOps or SysOps in a large-scale software development environment experience.
• 1+ years of systems development experience.
• Strong written & verbal communication skills.

Mansioni

• Tune Linux distros for performance.
• Design and implement solutions in a complex ecosystem.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical individuals.

Conoscenze

Networking fundamentals

Linux fundamentals

Problem solving

Communication skills

Coding in distributed systems

Formazione

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Strumenti

Python

C/C++

Java

Descrizione del lavoro

Overview

Amazon’s Intelligent Cloud Hosting (ICON) Team is looking for a System Development Engineer to join our team in San José, Costa Rica. We host Amazon’s websites, including global marketplaces, partner portals, and experiences like Kindle, Alexa, Amazon Video, Mobile Application; Physical Stores, Luna. We help deliver the HTML that delights customers and ensure underlying transactions—payments, tax, contracts, returns, inventory, and notifications—are processed reliably. We perform cloud infrastructure management at a massive scale and focus on operational quality, security, cost reduction, availability, and reliability. Our team is diverse and international, with offices in Seattle, New York, Dublin, San Jose, Sydney and Bangalore. We’re looking for a Systems Development Engineer who is inventive, understands operational excellence, and can help scale our systems.

A big part of our job is creating and updating a strategic SRE toolkit built on AWS technology. We use these tools across Amazon to deploy, monitor, and operate hundreds of thousands of services that power our highly distributed architecture. Our tools include orchestration, predictive analytics, monitoring, problem diagnosis and automated repair, enabling configurations that intelligently manage traffic through our distributed architecture for our customers.

Responsibilities

• We do almost everything in Linux. We’re looking for people who have tuned their preferred distro to work the way they like it.
• We need people with a solid grasp of networking fundamentals, including experience with load balancers, switches, and routers.
• We need people who can design, implement, maintain and deploy components that solve problems in a complex ecosystem. We work in several languages (not limited to, but most often Python and Java). It is more important to us that you understand coding in the context of working in distributed systems and/or widely scaled web applications.
• We need people with strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals.
• We want to work with people whose passion for problem solving aligns with debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• We need people who can self-motivate and follow through on projects, being detail oriented, passionate, and delivering results.

About the team

We connect Amazon worldwide websites and consumer experiences such as Kindle, Amazon Video, and Alexa to the internet, ensuring the highest level of availability, security, and privacy of web services that power the customer experience worldwide. We abstract, centralize, and optimize infrastructure management from individual service teams and operate 120+ Tier-1 services for teams in Worldwide Consumer. We own the routing layer built on AWS technology that connects traffic with low latency and protects web services against malicious robots and DDoS attacks.

Basic Qualifications

• 1+ years of DevOps or SysOps in a large-scale software development environment experience
• 1+ years of systems development experience
• Knowledge of Linux fundamentals
• Knowledge of at least one modern programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Perl
• Experience with network fundamentals (including load balancers, switches, routers, etc.)
• Strong written & verbal communication skills; ability to communicate effectively to both technical & non-technical individuals
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline/experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of and proficiency in the Python scripting language
• Knowledge of best practices for software deployment
• Experience with infrastructure management
• Experience with eCommerce retail websites
• Detail-oriented, passionate, and able to deliver results

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Posted: September 17, 2025 (Updated 3 days ago)

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