Platform Reliability Engineer II

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a System Development Engineer II to own the engineering and operational health of critical systems within AWS Infrastructure Services. You will drive improvements for resilience, cost efficiency, and maintainability, solving complex production issues and building automation to eliminate toil.

You will collaborate with partner teams, participate in reviews, and mentor peers to elevate engineering and operational practices across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or CSSLP is required.
• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 1+ years of designing or architecting scalable systems.
• 7+ years of admin experience in networking, storage, OS and hands-on systems engineering.
• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals.
• Experience programming with C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, or Ruby.
• Preferred: PowerShell, Python, Ruby, or Java in practice.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver technology solutions that improve system resilience, performance, and maintainability, balancing tradeoffs across scalability, security, and cost.
• Identify and resolve complex operational issues through root cause analysis, implementing permanent fixes that prevent recurrence and reduce support burden.
• Build automation and tooling to streamline repetitive processes, improve deployment confidence, and increase team agility and velocity.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and post-incident analyses, providing feedback and coaching peers on engineering and operational best practices.
• Collaborate with partner teams to assess system dependencies, clarify architectural responsibilities, and apply improvements that benefit the broader organization.

Skills

Programming languages

Systems design

Networking fundamentals

Problem solving

C/C++/Java/Python

PowerShell

Ruby

Education

Bachelor's degree or CSSLP

Tools

PowerShell

Python

Ruby

Java

Job description

Amazon is seeking a System Development Engineer II to own the engineering and operational health of critical systems within AWS Infrastructure Services. You will drive improvements for resilience, cost efficiency, and maintainability, solving complex production issues and building automation to eliminate toil.

You will collaborate with partner teams, participate in reviews, and mentor peers to elevate engineering and operational practices across the organization.