Senior Robotics Systems Engineer & Automation Lead

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

Paid Time Off (PTO)

401(k) Plan

Job summary

Amazon in Seattle, WA seeks a Systems Administrator Engineer III to design, operate, and improve mission-critical infrastructure. You will lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams, balancing hands-on work with project leadership to keep services reliable and scalable.

The role emphasizes automation, incident diagnosis, and continuous improvement, with a strong focus on delivering high-performing systems for global operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or other STEM field
• 7+ years of technical program management experience
• Experience owning program strategy, managing end-to-end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
• Experience managing external vendors and contractors — including generating RFPs, and setting requirements and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Ability to travel 75% within the domestic US
• 5+ years of operations, automation, and process improvement experience
• 3+ years of team development experience

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of systems and services within your team's scope, ensuring they are highly available, performant, secure, and maintainable.
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues across multiple technology areas, determining both short-term mitigations and long-term solutions while minimizing customer impact.
• Plan and manage technical projects end to end, including scoping work, defining milestones, tracking deliverables, and coordinating across teams to keep initiatives on schedule.
• Develop and maintain automation that simplifies operational workloads, scales infrastructure, and reduces points of failure across managed systems.
• Drive the creation and review of standard operating procedures, runbooks, and technical documentation while communicating project status, trade-offs, and risks to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Technical program management

System administration

Automation

Project leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

SQL

Tableau/QuickSight

MS Project

Job description

Amazon in Seattle, WA seeks a Systems Administrator Engineer III to design, operate, and improve mission-critical infrastructure. You will lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams, balancing hands-on work with project leadership to keep services reliable and scalable.

The role emphasizes automation, incident diagnosis, and continuous improvement, with a strong focus on delivering high-performing systems for global operations.