Cloud Systems Engineer II

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Arlington seeks a System Development Engineer to design, implement, and deploy software components for AWS services. You will work with highly scalable distributed systems, addressing customer needs and improving the overall experience.

The role emphasizes independent work, high-quality code, and operational excellence, with opportunities to mentor peers and contribute to testing and deployment processes. A TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional) as listed in basic qualifications.
• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 1+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• 3+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience.
• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems).
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby.
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph.

Responsibilities

• You design, implement, and deploy software components and features. You solve difficult problems generating positive feedback.
• You have a solid understanding of design approaches (and how to best use them).
• You are able to work independently and with your team to deliver software successfully.
• Your work is consistently of a high quality (e.g., secure, testable, maintainable, low-defects, efficient, etc.) and incorporates best practices. Your team trusts your work.
• Your code reviews tend to be rapid and uneventful. You provide useful code reviews for changes submitted by others.
• You focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions, taking on projects that improve your team’s software, making it better and easier to maintain.
• You make improvements to your team’s development and testing processes.
• You have established good working relationships with peers. You recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialogue to resolve them.
• You are able to confidently train new team-mates about your customers, what your team’s software does, how it is constructed, tested, operates, and how it fits into the bigger picture.

Skills

Programming languages

System design

Independent worker

Code reviews

Operational excellence

Education

Bachelor’s degree

CSSLP

Tools

PowerShell

Python

Ruby

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Arlington seeks a System Development Engineer to design, implement, and deploy software components for AWS services. You will work with highly scalable distributed systems, addressing customer needs and improving the overall experience.

The role emphasizes independent work, high-quality code, and operational excellence, with opportunities to mentor peers and contribute to testing and deployment processes. A TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance is required.