System Development Engineer — TS/SCI Cleared

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Jessup (MD); On-site; USD 129,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Sign-on bonuses

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Jessup, MD seeks a System Development Engineer to design, deliver, and operate resilient, scalable systems powering critical services.

You will own engineering and operational excellence, identify risks, and implement permanent fixes to improve reliability, cost, and customer experience. The role requires TS/SCI with poly clearance and experience automating large-scale infrastructure, Python or similar languages, Linux, and strong collaboration across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• Experience automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure.
• Proficiency in at least one modern language (Python, Java, C++, or Go).
• Experience with Linux/Unix environments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver technology solutions that solve difficult business problems, ensuring they are thoroughly tested, pragmatic, efficient, and cost-effective.
• Improve your team's operational health by participating in design reviews, operational readiness reviews, and post-incident analyses to identify risks to resilience, then deliver projects that mitigate those risks.
• Deeply diagnose problems across hardware, software, and operating environments, resolving contributing causes of performance, reliability, and availability issues with permanent solutions.
• Automate repetitive tasks, develop monitoring metrics, and identify points of failure to continuously improve system resiliency and reduce operational burden.
• Write clear, accurate documentation and contribute to code reviews, providing meaningful feedback to peers while coaching others on identifying and eliminating risk.

Skills

Programming languages

Python

Go

Java

C++

Linux

CI/CD

Infrastructure automation

Large-scale infra

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Jessup, MD seeks a System Development Engineer to design, deliver, and operate resilient, scalable systems powering critical services.

You will own engineering and operational excellence, identify risks, and implement permanent fixes to improve reliability, cost, and customer experience. The role requires TS/SCI with poly clearance and experience automating large-scale infrastructure, Python or similar languages, Linux, and strong collaboration across