SDE II: Glacier Fleet Automation & Infra Orchestration

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

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Arlington, VA is seeking a hands-on Software Development Engineer II to design, build, and operate NAWS-based services that automate Glacier fleet operations, including firmware deployment, library onboarding, and hardware monitoring.

You will contribute to automation projects that reduce toil and maintain operator tooling for safe fleet operations. You will collaborate with hardware vendors and other Glacier teams to bridge software with hardware,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• 3+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 3+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, 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.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

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

3+ years professional software dev

OO design experience

Distributed/multithreaded systems

Programming in Java/C++/C#/Perl

SDE experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Arlington, VA is seeking a hands-on Software Development Engineer II to design, build, and operate NAWS-based services that automate Glacier fleet operations, including firmware deployment, library onboarding, and hardware monitoring.

You will contribute to automation projects that reduce toil and maintain operator tooling for safe fleet operations. You will collaborate with hardware vendors and other Glacier teams to bridge software with hardware,