Platform Systems Engineer - Cloud Infra & Emerging Tech

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

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a System Development Engineer for the Platform Engineering and Emerging Technologies team. You will design, deploy, monitor, and automate infrastructure to support Wickr and government workloads.

The role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and automation across large distributed systems, with on-call duties. A TS/SCI clearance with polygraph or equivalent is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or CSSLP certification required.
• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 1+ years designing or architecting scalable systems and services.
• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networks, storage, OS).
• Experience in at least one modern language: C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby.
• Active TS/SCI US Government Security Clearance required with polygraph or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, monitor, and automate infrastructure and tools for a highly available platform.
• Operate with on-call rotations and drive fault-tolerance to minimize paging.
• Collaborate with teams to improve reliability and scalability of distributed systems.

Skills

C++

C#

Java

Python

Golang

PowerShell

Ruby

Education

Bachelor's degree

CSSLP

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a System Development Engineer for the Platform Engineering and Emerging Technologies team. You will design, deploy, monitor, and automate infrastructure to support Wickr and government workloads.

The role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and automation across large distributed systems, with on-call duties. A TS/SCI clearance with polygraph or equivalent is required.