SDE II: Cloud & Hardware Fleet Automation

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking an SDE II to design, build, and operate NAWS-based services that automate Glacier fleet operations, including firmware deployment and hardware monitoring.

You will work across the stack, from DynamoDB concurrency to custom storage hardware, writing high-quality Java/Python/Go code and contributing to automated remediation and on-call processes. Join a team delivering scalable infrastructure at AWS scale.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
• 3+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 3+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• 3+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate NAWS-based services (Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, SQS) that automate Glacier fleet operations including firmware deployment, library onboarding, hardware monitoring, and break-fix remediation.
• Contribute to automation projects that reduce manual operational toil — including automated offline library remediation, drive blocklisting, stuck job workflows, and automated ticket escalation.
• Build and maintain operator tooling and Fleet Commander integrations that enable safe, auditable fleet operations at scale.
• Collaborate with hardware vendors (BDT, Quantum), DCO technicians, partner with other S3 Keystone and Glacier teams to design solutions that bridge software and physical hardware.
• Participate in on-call rotations, respond to operational events, and drive improvements that reduce future toil.
• Write high-quality Java/Python/Go code with infrastructure defined in CDK.

Skills

C++

Java

C#

Perl

Object Oriented Design

Design patterns

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

DynamoDB

SQS

Lambda

Step Functions

CDK

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking an SDE II to design, build, and operate NAWS-based services that automate Glacier fleet operations, including firmware deployment and hardware monitoring.

You will work across the stack, from DynamoDB concurrency to custom storage hardware, writing high-quality Java/Python/Go code and contributing to automated remediation and on-call processes. Join a team delivering scalable infrastructure at AWS scale.