System Development Engineer, GREF Tech, Finance Automation

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a System Development Engineer to join the GREF Tech team. This role focuses on developing innovative solutions for corporate real estate management, ensuring system performance, and collaborating with stakeholders. Candidates should have experience in automation, programming, and infrastructure support. The position offers the opportunity to work on large-scale projects that impact the company's global operations.

Qualifications

• Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting infrastructure.
• Experience programming with at least one modern language.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain systems performance & capacity planning.
• Build and rollout systems to multiple global regions for Finance customers.
• Create processes and systems that drive efficiencies and quality.

Skills

Automation

Python

Linux/Unix

Education

Associate's degree or above

Job description

System Development Engineer, GREF Tech, Finance Automation

The Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF) Tech team, part of Finance Automation, develops services, products, and tools to enable Amazon's corporate real estate team to build and operate the company's global facilities in more than 60 countries, which is the largest corporate real estate footprint in the world. We develop building systems that deliver a seamless, adaptive, and creative workspace experience to more than half a million employees. Our mission is to create technology that simplifies the processes Amazon employs to manage its corporate real estate. Our teams build services and products that support various GREF domains, including space and occupancy planning, design and construction, employee health and safety, sustainability, and building management systems requiring IoT expertise. If you possess the skills to build, operate, and scale the next generation of distributed systems supporting Amazon's growth, this role may be well-suited for you.

This role requires working with stakeholders, engineering teams and product management to define business strategy, requirements, design, build, and delivery while ensuring security. This position involves regular communication with senior management on progress, risks and change control.

Key job responsibilities
- Interface with a diverse customer base to understand requirements, priorities, and processes.
- Monitor and maintain systems performance & capacity planning using metrics.
- Work on expansions of current applications to support new launches
- Work on identifying and addressing risks to hardware and software while helping maintain application and systems health.
- Work on customer issues to identify problems and develop solutions to avoid recurrence by addressing root causes.
- Build and rollout systems to multiple global regions for Finance customers
- Create processes and systems that can be leveraged to help drive efficiencies and quality
- Propose and implement new projects or recommend system improvements ensuring security standard which enable Finance Operations business
- Create and update our infrastructure and security standards and ensure that the systems adheres these standards
- Work with a wide range of technologies and technical document writing.
- Excellent listening, writing and technical communication skills are essential for interaction with senior management on status, risks and emergent issues with project, initiatives and support.

About the team
The Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF) Tech team, part of Finance Automation, develops services, products, and tools to enable Amazon's corporate real estate team to build and operate the company's global facilities in more than 60 countries, which is the largest corporate real estate footprint in the world. We develop building systems that deliver a seamless, adaptive, and creative workspace experience to more than half a million employees. Our mission is to create technology that simplifies the processes Amazon employs to manage its corporate real estate. Our teams build services and products that support various GREF domains, including space and occupancy planning, design and construction, employee health and safety, sustainability, and building management systems requiring IoT expertise. If you possess the skills to build, operate, and scale the next generation of distributed systems supporting Amazon's growth, this role may be well-suited for you.

This role requires working with stakeholders, engineering teams and product management to define business strategy, requirements, design, build, and delivery while ensuring security. This position involves regular communication with senior management on progress, risks and change control.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Associate's degree or above
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- 2+ years of DevOps or SysOps in a large-scale software development environment experience

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