The Enterprise Engineering organization is looking for an experienced Senior Systems Development Engineer with a strong infrastructure and development background. We are using AWS products to evolve traditional enterprise tools and services at a large scale. If you are passionate about automating large-scale cloud infrastructure deployments, keep reading.

You and your team will work with internal Amazon service owners and product teams to develop remote compute and storage solutions that give enterprise IT customers more choice. You will develop self-service platforms that will enable our global workforce to operate more effectively. You will influence product roadmaps and build new solutions as needed to raise the bar for security, automation, and operational excellence for Amazon’s corporate infrastructure.

In this role, you will build the tools and services that move our systems into the infrastructure-as-code age, enable self-healing, and provide capabilities that enable other Amazon service owners to do the same. You will use AWS products and DevOps patterns to build the next generation of remote systems management tools.

As a Senior Systems Development Engineer you will be expected to influence the business and technology direction of the team. You will have the ability to impact the goals of not only your direct team but partner teams and stakeholders as well. As senior engineer on the team, you will be counted on to define and apply the standards for engineering, test, and operational excellence best practices for your team.

We are looking for a motivated builder to inspire our teams and deliver results to our customers. This is a hands-on position where your daily activities will range from strategic planning to new system development to supporting the customers that depend on your services. You will deliver consistent, well-defined results in an agile systems development workflow. To succeed in this role, you will deliver on-time results that delight your customers while inspiring your team to think big about their work. If this sounds like a fit, we would love to speak with you.

Key job responsibilities

• Utilize knowledge of development and service delivery best practices to lead design and development efforts for a team with a security, scalability, and performance mindset.
• Embrace the AWS ecosystem and drive innovation on top of it
• Instill a culture that drives DevOps, hold a high quality bar with code reviews, drive automation efforts to empower, and remove barriers for your team
• Translation of complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design
• Hands-on leadership for your team; working with others on the engineering team to guide the day-to-day development activities, leading architecture decisions, participating in designs, design reviews, and implementation.
• Build services that can scale across six continents for hundreds of thousands of Amazonians worldwide
• Deliver quality features on-time and on-budget and execution against project plans and delivery commitments.

A day in the life
An engineer on the Analytics & Remote Compute team is responsible for supporting and developing our on-premise compute platform services. In a given day you might (1) participate team design meetings, stand-ups, or oncall, (2) design mechanisms and the write code to solve business problems for our services, (3) work directly with our internal Amazon customers to support service deployment at Amazon offices.

• 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 automating and configuring systems using Desired State Configuration (DSC). Experience with PowerShell scripting language. Experience supporting and automating large Windows Server installations.

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 $121,000/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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.