System Development Engineer - Network Security & ACL Automation

Amazon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 129,200 - 174,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage

Paid Time Off

401(k) Plan

Parental Leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a System Development Engineer in Austin to design, build, and maintain ACL-based network security systems for AWS network security across multiple FC sites. You will own end-to-end delivery, performance optimization, and reliability of critical ACL deployment tooling.

The role emphasizes collaboration with cross-functional teams, architecture, and cost-aware design, with a focus on availability and security in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure.
• Proficient in modern programming languages (Python, Java, C++, etc.).
• Experience with Linux/Unix.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• 3+ years designing or architecting distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Identify business problems, gathers data, proposes solutions and leads implementation.
• Lead development and maintenance of systems accountable for generating and deploying ACLs information to network devices.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams to align on requirements, security guidelines, and best practices for ACL management and network security.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt, architectural limitations, and performance bottlenecks, proposing and implementing refactoring and optimization strategies to improve the systems' efficiency and maintainability.
• Ensure robust monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting mechanisms are in place for the ACL management systems.
• Give careful consideration of availability, operations, maintenance, and cost.
• Exercise high judgement, skepticism, and scrutiny of requests to ensure that changes do not lead to unsupportable systems, non-compliance, security vulnerabilities or detrimental impact.
• Design the complete solution stack and delivers through others.

Skills

Automation

Large-scale infra

Python

CI/CD pipelines

Linux/Unix

Distributed systems

AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Job description

Amazon is seeking a System Development Engineer in Austin to design, build, and maintain ACL-based network security systems for AWS network security across multiple FC sites. You will own end-to-end delivery, performance optimization, and reliability of critical ACL deployment tooling.

The role emphasizes collaboration with cross-functional teams, architecture, and cost-aware design, with a focus on availability and security in a fast-paced environment.