System Development Engineer

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Systems Development Engineer to help make the cloud more powerful by building software that improves operational performance and developer agility.

You will be part of a team that writes code to fix bugs, automate tasks, monitor systems, and manage infrastructure for large-scale services. The role emphasizes automation, reliability, and scalability across compute platforms, with opportunities to contribute to best practices that keep AWS services running for customers

Job description

Make the cloud more powerful

While it’s difficult to describe what a system development engineer does at AWS, we can say that our primary role is to build software that increases operational performance and developer agility. We are thought leaders in automation and infrastructure of a service. We write code to fix bugs, automate tasks, implement monitoring, and deal with infrastructural components within the large scale systems we build. And we’re the glue that keeps AWS services up and running for our customers.

We’re looking for people who are passionate about automation, operational excellence, and infrastructure. You might be classically trained or entirely self-taught. Either way, you love to learn. Your technology toolkit is wide, but there’s probably one area you specialize in. You can efficiently tackle problems through code, hardware, networking, or storage within complex systems. You can roll up your selves to troubleshoot and diagnosis any technical outage. And as part of our team, you’ll get to set best practices to ensure we’re providing customers with high-availability services.

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