Systems Engineer II: GenAI & Cloud Reliability

Amazon; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Systems Development Engineer to join the Managed Operations team, balancing day-to-day production system operations with long-term software engineering to minimize toil across AWS Regions.

You will work across diverse teams to improve reliability, performance, and efficiency while leveraging GenAI to accelerate prototyping, testing, and automation. This role is based in Herndon, VA, and focuses on high-impact infrastructure challenges.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience.
• Experience programming in at least one modern language (Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust).
• Experience with Linux/Unix and CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and Generative AI technologies.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Define system requirements, participate in the development and delivery of operability-related features such as system health monitoring, diagnostics, repair, and other self-healing automation
• Develop or further existing application and system management tools and processes that reduce manual efforts and increase overall efficiency
• Demonstrated ability to leverage Generative AI tools and AI-assisted development environments to accelerate prototyping, development, validation, and testing workflows

Skills

Python

Java

C++

Golang

Linux/Unix

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps practices

Generative AI technologies

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Systems Development Engineer to join the Managed Operations team, balancing day-to-day production system operations with long-term software engineering to minimize toil across AWS Regions.

You will work across diverse teams to improve reliability, performance, and efficiency while leveraging GenAI to accelerate prototyping, testing, and automation. This role is based in Herndon, VA, and focuses on high-impact infrastructure challenges.