System Development Engineer II — Foundational Security

VulnU; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Retirement match

Equity

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Amazon is hiring a System Development Engineer II in Seattle to own the engineering and operational health of critical systems. You will write code, automate workflows, and collaborate across teams to improve resiliency, cost, and quality for customers.

The role requires hands-on engineering, strong problem solving, and experience with modern languages and AWS services. You will mentor others and contribute to automation and modern engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Experience automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver technology solutions that improve resiliency, performance, and cost-effectiveness of your team's systems.
• Identify and resolve architectural deficiencies through root cause analysis across hardware, software, and environments.
• Develop and maintain automation, metrics, and monitoring to improve reliability and reduce manual toil.
• Participate in code reviews, operational readiness reviews, and post-incident analyses; mentor peers on best practices.
• Write clear documentation and runbooks; evaluate opportunities to integrate generative AI to augment productivity.

Skills

Python

Ruby

Golang

Java

C++

C#

Rust

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

AWS

Distributed systems

Job description

Amazon is hiring a System Development Engineer II in Seattle to own the engineering and operational health of critical systems. You will write code, automate workflows, and collaborate across teams to improve resiliency, cost, and quality for customers.

The role requires hands-on engineering, strong problem solving, and experience with modern languages and AWS services. You will mentor others and contribute to automation and modern engineering practices.