Amazon System Development Engineer AWS Vetting 

United States, California, Cupertino 

831656377

What’s the challenge?
There are many ambiguous and difficult challenges in our fast-moving space. Our platform is mission critical and requires deep system and software expertise. You need to have the ability to work within a fast moving and startup-like environment in a large company. You will identify solutions, trying ideas, given space to fail and iterate to produce products that your customers love.What you will do?
You will be a part of a team to build the next generation of platform level software and systems that enables us to deliver healthy hardware to AWS customers. You regularly work with senior AWS leadership to plan for the future. You will be a part of a team that owns AWS Vetting Foundational Services where you own the systems and services deployed to AWS Data Centers and Manufacturing sites. You will develop, design, and maintain systems to ensure the AWS Manufacturing sites continued operation and continued operation in our data centers.
You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.Amazon 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.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.
Key job responsibilities- Develop infrastructure-as-code software to stand-up large distributed services
- Design fault tolerance and disaster recovery solutions
- Identify and remove scaling bottlenecks in large-scale distributed systems
- Work with other engineers to build and manage massively scaled services- Understand and implement security and operational best-practices
- Develop monitoring, alerting, and metric collection at scale
- Contribute to and lead design, architecture, process, and development discussions
- Argue for the right outcomes with data, conviction, and diplomacy
- Mentor junior engineers
You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.Amazon 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.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.

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 4+ 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 C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)

- Experience with PowerShell (preferred), Python, Ruby, or Java
- Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology
- 5+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience automating and configuring systems using the Desired State Configuration (DSC) in a large enterprise environment
- Experience with networking fundamentals including hands-on experience with load balancers, switches, routers, etc.
- Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering