Systems Development Engineer, Amazon Enterprise Engineering, Enterprise Engineering
at Amazon
Posted 10 hours ago
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- Compensation
- $99,100 – $160,000 USD
- City
- Seattle
- Country
- United States
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We are seeking an experienced Systems Development Engineer to design, implement, and maintain extensible services used across Amazon. You will build enterprise-scale, serverless infrastructure and automation, leveraging AWS services such as DynamoDB, Lambda, Secrets Manager, and API Gateway. The role emphasizes coding, infrastructure as code, and self-service tooling to meet diverse customer needs, with on-call paging for high-severity events after hours. This position sits within Enterprise Engineering, delivering secure, reliable access to corporate resources across Amazon's global sites.
Who are you? You have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions. You have experience working as a systems development or in an enterprise environment, and have implemented automated solutions across a variety of applications and systems. You enjoy writing code and creating to manage your services. You’re passionate about success. 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 cloud computing systems 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 systems leverage server-less systems such as DynamoDB, Lambda, Secrets Manager, API Gateway, 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.
Enterprise Engineering: 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.
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.
Basic Qualifications
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby- Experience tools for automation (building, testing, releasing or monitoring)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- Knowledge and experience using Artificial Intelligence and coding using Python and IDEs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of and proficiency in the use of Python scripting language- Experience on highly concurrent, high throughput systems and knowledge of complex distributed systems
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 99,100.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually

