Systems Development Engineer II, AWS Managed Operations (MO) AWSOM Team
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Job summary
Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Herndon, VA seeks Systems Development Engineers to balance day-to-day operations with long-term software engineering to reduce operational toil.
You’ll collaborate across teams to improve reliability, performance, and efficiency of AWS systems, leveraging GenAI for rapid prototyping and automated tasks while maintaining security and governance.
Qualifications
- 3+ years designing or architecting scalable systems.
- 3+ years hands-on experience with networking, storage, OS, and systems engineering.
- Proficiency in at least one modern language: Python, Java, Go, C++, etc.
- Experience developing, deploying and managing AI products at scale.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate large-scale software systems across diverse teams.
- Develop solutions to improve reliability, performance, and efficiency of systems.
- Apply GenAI tools to accelerate prototyping, automation and testing.
Skills
Job description
Do you love decomposing problems to develop products that impact millions of people around the world? Would you enjoy identifying, defining, and building software solutions that revolutionize how businesses operate?
Do you love decomposing problems to develop products that impact millions of people around the world? Would you enjoy identifying, defining, and building software solutions that revolutionize how businesses operate?
Would you enjoy diving deep into operating and improving some of the largest software systems humanity has ever built? Do the challenges that come of driving technical, business, and cultural change to improve the reliability, performance, and efficiency excite you?
The AWS Managed Operations (MO) organization was founded in April 2023, with the objective to reduce operational load and toil through long-term engineering projects. Managed Operations (MO) is building the best-in-class engineering and operations team that will own the day‑to‑day operations for AWS Regions; improving the availability, reliability, latency, performance and efficiency to operate AWS regions.
Amazon is looking for highly motivated Systems Development Engineers who can balance the day‑to‑day operations of AWS’ software systems with long‑term software engineering to reduce operational toil. We need engineers who enjoy constantly learning and diving deep into the wide range of systems and technologies that make up one of the world’s largest cloud providers.
Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. You’ll bring a passion for innovation, data, search, analytics, and distributed systems.
- Build solutions to innovate our solutions to agentic‑first interfaces
- Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
- Demonstrated ability to leverage Generative AI tools and AI‑assisted development environments to accelerate prototyping, development, validation, and testing workflows
- Experience using AI‑powered code generation and review tools to rapidly iterate on infrastructure automation scripts, configuration templates, and systems tooling and to automate investigative, diagnostic, or operational tasks
- Ability to apply GenAI capabilities to accelerate test case generation, integration testing, and validation of complex infrastructure components — reducing cycle times without sacrificing quality or security rigor
- Comfort using GenAI tools to rapidly synthesize technical documentation, compliance frameworks, and architectural patterns — accelerating research and decision‑making in ambiguous problem spaces
- Awareness of the responsible use of GenAI in security‑sensitive environments, including understanding of data handling boundaries, model limitations, and appropriate human‑in‑the‑loop validation practices
You will split your time approximately 50/50 between operating production systems and driving long‑term improvements to the reliability, availability, and performance of those systems.
- Root cause analysis & remediation — Investigate production issues such as deployment failures, identify underlying bugs, and implement fixes to restore system health.
- Systems‑level problem solving — Identify patterns across individual service incidents, design solutions that address entire classes of problems, and collaborate with your team to refine those designs.
- SLO stewardship — Evaluate the effectiveness of Service Level Objectives, partner with stakeholder teams to validate thresholds, and update infrastructure as code (IaC) to keep monitoring meaningful and actionable.
- Systems automation for operational excellence — Design and build systems that improve fleet management—such as safely migrating workloads to more optimal hardware types—delivering measurable gains in performance.
Why AWS?
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge‑sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one‑on‑one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee‑led and company‑sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge‑sharing, mentorship and other career‑advancing resources here to help you develop into a better‑rounded professional.
We value work‑life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands‑on systems engineering experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience developing, deploying and managing AI products at scale
- 5+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands‑on systems engineering experience
- 2+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
- Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands‑on systems engineering
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including:
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parental leave
Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, VA, Herndon - 129,200.00 - 174,800.00 USD annually
Company - Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.
Job ID: A10474936
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