Job Description

DESCRIPTION We are looking for a System Development Engineer with deep expertise in designing and supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure. You will be responsible for the design, implementation and quality of services you deliver. The focus for this role is building, enhancing and maintaining extensible services used across Amazon. System Development Engineers at Amazon is a unique role which organically emerged as the company evolved. Inspiration for the System Development Engineer came from System Engineers who “built” unique technology to solve business and customer problems. Enterprise Engineering owns the key products, services, and tools Amazonians use to securely and reliably access corporate resources, communicate with one another, and collaborate with customers. Enterprise Engineering builds services ranging from network access to customer-facing software to meet the needs of our number one customer: Amazon. All Amazonians and variable staff rely on our products at all Amazon Corporate, Customer Service, Fulfillment, Retail, and affiliate sites across the globe. 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. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS * Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field * 3+ years software development experience using Java, Python, C#, C++ or other similar object oriented languages * Experience in operating and supporting production environments (DevOps, SRE, on-call) * 1+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience * 3+ years of administrative experience in networking, Linux, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience * Desire to work in a diverse and collaborative team environment * Business-level written and oral English communication skills PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, or related field * Experience in operating, troubleshooting and mitigating failures in highly-available services. * Experience in developing automation and solving problems at large scale. * Experience in cloud technologies, architectures and distributed computing (AWS). * Experience in Machine Learning, data science, applied mathematics, or equivalent. Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need an adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please contact the Applicant-Candidate Accommodation Team (ACAT), Monday through Friday from 7:00 am GMT - 4:00 pm GMT. If calling directly from the United Kingdom, please dial +44 800 086 9884 (tel:+448000869884). If calling from Ireland, please dial +353 1800 851 489 (tel:+3531800851489).