Amazon Sr Systems Development Engineer - Ground Infrastructure Project Kuiper 

Australia, New South Wales, Sydney 

893124225

As a System Development Engineer, you will build tools and processes for monitoring, operating, and scaling ground infrastructure to millions of users around the globe. Use and enhance the tools you and the team develop. Using metrics, scalability in design, and continuous improvement, you will automate repetitive processes to eliminate outages and enable high availability of the ground infrastructure.This position may require access to information, technology, or hardware that is subject to export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Employment in this position is contingent upon obtaining any required export licenses or other approvals from the United States government. As such, the successful candidate must be eligible to obtain any necessary export licenses or approvals based on their nationality, citizenship, and any other factors considered by the applicable export control regulationsKey job responsibilities- Ensure that all systems are designed to be robust, scalable, maintainable and adaptable as the service scales and evolves over time
- Build and maintain critical infrastructure, tools and operating procedures to report on the health of ground infrastructure.
- Integrate with other existing systems such as trouble ticketing, dashboards, and metrics tools and services
- Measure and improve the performance and availability of the Kuiper Ground Infrastructure
- Provide critical operations support and incident response for the service, while taking part in an on-call rotationA day in the life
Mentoring, Design, Coding, Operational Excellence:

- 4+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
- Knowledge of at least one modern programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Perl
- Practical experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
- Designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems