Senior Cloud Systems Engineer — EC2 Nitro Platform

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Parental leave

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Santa Clara is seeking a System Development Engineer to drive development for new EC2 ML platforms. You will work with hardware, firmware, systems and software teams to deliver scalable, high-performance infrastructure.

The role focuses on maintaining build and release systems, ensuring uptime, and shipping code that touches a broad customer base from startups to enterprises, with emphasis on reliability, performance and security.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience
• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 4+ years of systems development in an IT or data center environment experience
• 4+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
• 3+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience
• Experience leading the design, build and deployment of complex and performant (reliable and scalable) software solutions in production.

Responsibilities

• Developing tools to streamline operations as we scale to reduce operational load and improve our overall operational posture.
• Identifying ways to increase the automate and improve our test infrastructure and make our CI/CD more robust and flexible
• Playing a key role in investigating and recommending best practices for maintaining and improving code quality, fleet health, and security & reliability of our service.
• Growing our talent through actively mentoring junior engineers, improving their skills, their knowledge of our systems, and their ability to get things done.

Skills

C++

Java

Python

Golang

PowerShell

Linux/Unix

Systems design

Distributed systems

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Santa Clara is seeking a System Development Engineer to drive development for new EC2 ML platforms. You will work with hardware, firmware, systems and software teams to deliver scalable, high-performance infrastructure.

The role focuses on maintaining build and release systems, ensuring uptime, and shipping code that touches a broad customer base from startups to enterprises, with emphasis on reliability, performance and security.