Senior Systems Engineer: Automation & Reliability Lead

Amazon; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 151,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Systems Development Engineer to balance day-to-day operations with long-term software engineering to reduce toil across global cloud infrastructure. You will lead design, build, and deployment of reliable, scalable software systems and mentor engineers across teams.

This role emphasizes Linux/Unix operations, automation, performance, and collaboration with AWSOM to improve availability, latency, and efficiency for AWS Regions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years deploying and operating in Linux/Unix environments.
• 5+ years of systems development in data centers/IT.
• 3+ years in systems design, automation, and operations.
• 3+ years programming with modern languages (C++, Java, Python).
• Experience leading design and deployment of reliable, scalable software in production.

Responsibilities

• Solve challenging technical problems at every layer of the stack.
• Automate processes at scale to reduce costs and toil.
• Mentor engineers, lead sprints, and drive cross-team collaboration.
• Build solutions to improve reliability, availability, and performance of software systems.

Skills

Linux/Unix

Systems development

Automation

Programming (C++, Java, Python)

Software design

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Systems Development Engineer to balance day-to-day operations with long-term software engineering to reduce toil across global cloud infrastructure. You will lead design, build, and deployment of reliable, scalable software systems and mentor engineers across teams.

This role emphasizes Linux/Unix operations, automation, performance, and collaboration with AWSOM to improve availability, latency, and efficiency for AWS Regions.