System Development Engineer II, REALM ARISE

Amazon; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at a forward-thinking company where you will play a crucial role in developing innovative technologies for package delivery. As a Systems Development Engineer, you will enhance automation and tooling to improve incident management and resolution. This role offers the chance to work with cutting-edge AWS technologies and contribute to large-scale distributed systems. If you are passionate about solving complex challenges in a collaborative environment, this opportunity is perfect for you. Be part of a culture that values diversity and empowers you to make a significant impact in the tech industry.

Qualifications

• Experience automating and supporting large-scale infrastructure.
• 3-5 years in troubleshooting technical issues in distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build tooling to automate detection and resolution of issues.
• Lead resolution of high visibility incidents and improve automation.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Automation

Scripting languages

Agile/Scrum methodology

Networking fundamentals

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

8 years relevant experience

Tools

AWS

Dynamo DB

S3

EC2

SQS

ECS

Linux

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Job ID: 2923388 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Come help Amazon create and deploy new technologies to help deliver packages to the customer door step! As a Systems Development Engineer in the Last Mile Technology team, you will be instrumental in helping us create innovative ways to get packages delivered quickly and cost-effectively to the customer. The Last Mile Technology team supports multiple businesses globally, creating the technology that supports deliveries for businesses such as Prime Now, Amazon Flex, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Logistics, and other current and new initiatives.

Last Mile REALM is at the heart of the high availability of Services. We make customer impacting events shorter and less frequent by providing large scale event and incident management. Our automated tooling quickly identifies the cause of an issue and helps mitigate its impact, and much of our engineer time is spent on projects to improve the tooling and automation. It's an exciting time to join our team as we are rapidly growing and expanding our offerings.

As a System Development Engineer on the team you will build tooling to automate the detection and resolution of issues within Last Mile and Amazon infrastructure. You will also spend a portion of your time directing the resolution of high visibility incidents by leading conference calls. Using data learned from those incidents you will drive further improvements into our automation, tooling, and processes so that the next event is shorter or avoided entirely. You will participate on project teams to expand use of our tooling to additional areas across Amazon. If you're looking for a team with great growth potential and an opportunity to make a huge impact, this is the team to join.

Last Mile Technology extensively leverages Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure including Dynamo DB, S3, EC2, SQS, ECS and a combination of Python, Java and C++ on Linux. If you are passionate about solving problems for large-scale distributed systems in the cloud, we would love to hear from you.

Key job responsibilities

1. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or at least 8 years relevant experience in a large-scale technical environment
2. 3-5 years experiencing troubleshooting and resolving technical issues in a distributed environment.
3. 3-5 years experience automating tasks using scripting languages. Software development experience with compiled languages a plus.
4. 3-5 years experience driving collaborative projects from conception to delivery using Agile/Scrum methodology
5. Solid grasp of networking fundamentals
6. Effective organizational skills and the ability to maintain a consistently high standard of operations in a busy environment
7. English language written and verbal communication skills

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
2. Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
3. Experience with Linux/Unix
4. Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Experience with distributed systems at scale

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.