System Development Engineer — TS/SCI Cleared, Resilient Cloud

Socket.dev; Jessup (MD); On-site; USD 129,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Maryland (Jessup) is seeking a System Development Engineer to design, build, and operate highly available, scalable systems. You will own engineering and operational excellence across services, driving reliability improvements and cost efficiencies.

This role requires an active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance and the ability to obtain agency clearances for AWS work, with a base salary range shown for the MD region.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance required.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience automating, deploying, and supporting infrastructure.

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

Distributed systems

Python

Ruby

Golang

Java

C++

C#

Rust

Linux/Unix

CI/CD pipelines

Security clearance TS/SCI

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Amazon in Maryland (Jessup) is seeking a System Development Engineer to design, build, and operate highly available, scalable systems. You will own engineering and operational excellence across services, driving reliability improvements and cost efficiencies.

This role requires an active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance and the ability to obtain agency clearances for AWS work, with a base salary range shown for the MD region.