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Amazon Systems Development Engineer III, Managed Region Builds - Managed Infrastructure in Seattle, Washington
Description
The Managed Infrastructure team is responsible to build one of Earth's largest distributed systems - EC2 - at scale. We own the software and tooling to build the foundation of the cloud in new Regions and Availability Zones and our team is growing to support a senior leadership strategic initiative.
AWS is the industry leader in Cloud Computing. We enable our customers to dynamically scale their computing capacity as needed. Your contributions on our team will have a direct and significant impact on both our customers and our business. You will work on tooling that interacts with a broad set of EC2 services ensuring we can build EC2 at scale. You will innovate and help create the tools needed to deploy AWS services in new regions in a fully automated fashion with zero human touch. This work requires innovative solutions for managing complex large scale deployments including configuration, service migration, dependency detection and management and more.
Key job responsibilities
As a Systems Development Engineer on our team, you find tough problems and come up with innovative solutions. Your primary focus is to invent, refine, and develop effective technology solutions to team, business, and customer problems. You will write code to fix bugs, automate tasks, implement monitoring, or deal with infrastructural components. You are proficient in a broad range of technologies including hardware, software, networking, operating systems, and how they interact with one another in complex systems. You are a technical leader who works with others across multiple teams, influencing decisions and driving results.
About the team
The Managed Infrastructure team was formed over seven years ago to tackle the unique and complex technical challenges that arise from building new AWS Regions & Availability Zones. Many of the tenured Amazonians who formed this team are still on it today.
Life moves fast for our team. We have a broad responsibility and support hundreds of teams across AWS. Every day is an opportunity to accomplish more than you thought you could.
We have fun with regular happy hours, AMA sessions, and team outings. We work as a team and support our each other's learning and professional growth.
Basic Qualifications
3+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience
4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
4+ years of systems development in an IT or data center environment experience
4+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
2+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience
Experience leading the design, build and deployment of complex and performant (reliable and scalable) software solutions in production
Preferred Qualifications
1+ years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Bash/Perl) experience
Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
Experience taking a leading role in building complex software or computing infrastructure that has been successfully delivered to customers
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $235,200/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.