Systems Development Engineer II, Engine - Amazon

Description Are you passionate about delivering high quality services and ready to apply your experience at massive scale? Do you enjoy diving deep into unsolved problems and coming up with practical solutions? Do you get satisfaction and enjoyment from building tools and for repetitive tasks? We are looking for an experienced Sr. Development with deep expertise in designing and supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure. You will be responsible for the service architecture design, implementation and quality of services you deliver. Who are you? You have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions. You have experience working as a development or in an enterprise environment, and have implemented automated solutions across a variety of applications and . You enjoy writing code and creating workflows to manage your services. You're knowledgeable. You are an expert in a few chosen areas but also strive to maintain a broad skillset. You constantly seek out new ideas and technologies that you can use to deliver a higher quality services at a cheaper prices. People seek you out as a resource to solve complex problems. You're passionate about success. You use data to measure success and you don't spend time on things that do not matter. You take responsibility for the quality of your service and, regardless of their source, strive to prevent faults from impacting your customers. You understand different people have different needs to be productive, and strive to develop self-service oriented solutions. You have a passion for learning, designing, and building computing for a diverse set of customers. You're an Amazonian. The focus for this role is building, enhancing, and maintaining extensible services used across Amazon. These services leverage Server-less platforms such as DynamoDB, Aurora, Lambda, Fargate, API Gateway, S3, Server-less developer tools among others. Systems Development Engineers: Systems Development Engineers at Amazon is a unique role which organically emerged as the company evolved. Inspiration for the Systems Development Engineer came from Systems Engineers who "built" unique technology to solve business and customer problems. Systems Development Engineers perform traditional Systems Engineering and writes or develops scripts, applications, or mechanisms to manage infrastructure. This role was created for the "builder" population of Systems Engineers who go beyond using basic tools and GUIs to implement infrastructure as code and even server-less systems. Amazon is a unique organization, and this an above average job. We'll give you the opportunity to make a difference to our business. We're looking for an exceptional professional with outstanding technical skills, with the opportunity to realize Amazon's motto: "Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History." This role requires scheduled after hours paging for high-severity events related to all of the team's services and systems. Paging availability is required for after-hours weekday, weekend and holiday coverage. The pager rotates throughout the team to balance the load. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Arlington, VA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA Basic Qualifications - 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience - 1+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience - 7+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience - Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems) - Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby Preferred Qualifications - Experience with PowerShell (preferred), Python, Ruby, or Java - Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $103,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.