Amazon Web Services (AWS) · 1 day ago
Sr. Systems Development Engineer, AWS Managed Operations (MO) AWSOM Team
Herndon, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$136K/yr - $235K/yr
5+ years expAmazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, and they are seeking highly motivated Senior Systems Development Engineers. The role involves balancing day-to-day operations of AWS’ software systems with long-term software engineering to enhance reliability, performance, and efficiency.
ConsultingDevOpsInformation TechnologySoftwareWeb Development
Responsibilities
Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack
You’ll roughly spend 50% of your time operating production systems and 50% making long-term improvements to the reliability, availability, and performance of those software systems
An example week could look like: Monday morning you root caused why some deployments recently failed, and in the afternoon, you made fixes for those bugs
Tuesday you realized there’s actually a common thread to those bug fixes yesterday, and designed a solution to that class of problem, seeking feedback from your team
On Wednesday you investigated a Service Level Objective (SLO) that recently became less than useful
You dove deep, talked with the partner team, and found out the thresholds no-longer makes sense, so you updated their infrastructure as code (IaC) to fix it
Then on Thursday and Friday you were developing software with your team on a system you designed which safely replaces the fleets in your team’s care with a more optimal hardware type, increasing the performance whilst decreasing its carbon emissions
Qualification
Required
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
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
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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2025-01-22Grant
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Chief Executive Officer
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