Automation Engineer - Large-Scale Stateful Systems

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking an Infra Engineer to design, build, and operate automation that patches and maintains hundreds of thousands of stateful hosts, keeping fleet maintenance invisible to customers.

You will build systems that detect unhealthy hosts, remediate them, and balance rapid recovery with minimal disruption. The role covers rollout/rollback mechanisms, on‑call participation, and design reviews that raise the engineering bar.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability and scaling).
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate automation that patches and maintains hundreds of thousands of stateful hosts, keeping fleet maintenance invisible to customers.
• Build systems that automatically detect unhealthy hosts and remediate them, balancing fast recovery against avoiding needless disruption.
• Develop rollout and rollback mechanisms that keep the blast radius of any change small at fleet scale, and that let changes be tested before they reach customers and reversed if something goes wrong.
• Own your services end to end: take part in on‑call, debug production issues, and continually reduce the manual effort needed to operate the fleet.
• Write design documents, collaborate with engineers across MSK, and raise the engineering bar through design and code reviews.

Skills

Software development

System design

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking an Infra Engineer to design, build, and operate automation that patches and maintains hundreds of thousands of stateful hosts, keeping fleet maintenance invisible to customers.

You will build systems that detect unhealthy hosts, remediate them, and balance rapid recovery with minimal disruption. The role covers rollout/rollback mechanisms, on‑call participation, and design reviews that raise the engineering bar.