Full Job Description
Sr. Systems Development Engineer, AWS Managed Operations (MO) AWSOM Team
The AWS Operations Management (AWSOM) Team is looking for highly motivated Senior Systems Development Engineers who can balance the day-to-day operations of AWS' software systems with long-term software engineering to reduce operational toil. This role will serve as the technical lead and 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.
Key job responsibilities
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.
You'll also:
- Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
- Automate processes at scale, reduces costs, and eliminates the operational burden that slows down product delivery
- Mentor engineers, lead and drive collaboration, lead sprints, and influence across engineering teams we support
- Build solutions to make long-term improvements to the reliability, availability, and performance of those software systems
A day in the life
AWS Operations Management (AWSOM) team's mission is to launch a new offerings that will drive security, availability, performance and efficiency improvements to operate AWS Regions globally. We relentlessly remove operational toil through automation to run day-to-day operations at scale. We increase collaboration, bridge development and operations while prioritizing the needs of our customers.
AWSOM team's vision is to own the operational responsibility for a collection of services in AWS commercial and sovereign regions to free up service teams time to continue innovating quickly for our customers. AWSOM will be responsible for service availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management and monitoring.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
- 5+ years of systems development in an IT or data center environment experience
- 3+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience
- 3+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience
- Experience leading the design, build and deployment of complex and performant (reliable and scalable) software solutions in production
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
- 6+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 4+ years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Bash/Perl) experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience taking a leading role in building complex software or computing infrastructure that has been successfully delivered to customers
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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, VA, Herndon - 151,200.00 - 204,600.00 USD annually
