Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Technology

Sr.SystemsDevEngineer,AI&StrategicPartnerEngineering

$151–205k Seattle, Washington, United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Sr. Systems Dev Engineer, AI & Strategic Partner Engineering at Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.. Skills: AI agents, Distributed systems. Own team's systems end-to-end. Identify risks and limitations”

What You'll Achieve.

Ensure world-class resilience; Solve complex distributed system challenges; Handle operational tasks; Automate repetitive workflows; Enhance service security; Enhance service durability; Enhance service availability; Enhance service performance; Enhance service cost-efficiency; Meet needs of enterprise customers; Meet needs of SAP community; Perform operational tasks; Improve system resilience; Reduce complexity; Ensure high availability; Ensure fault tolerance; Ensure customer delight; Influence roadmaps; Ship faster and safer

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Problem solving; Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting

Eligibility Requirements

Occasional travel

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

6+ years software development experience, 6+ years designing/architecting systems, Bachelor's degree, 5+ years programming experience, Expertise in SAP Domain, SAP ABAP programming skills, Knowledge of SAP systems architecture, Experience building with AI/ML technologies, Apply AI tools to operational tasks, Leading technology solution delivery

Nice to Have

Deep knowledge of AWS services, Architecting solutions spanning AWS domains, Experience with SAP agentic technologies, Experience with AWS AI services

What You'll Do.

Own team's systems end-to-end

Identify risks and limitations

Decompose complex problems

Set engineering standards

Set operational excellence standards

Define technical direction

Own architectural decisions

Drive cross-team alignment

Build resilient solutions

Build partner-driven solutions

Design distributed system software

Implement distributed system software

Deploy distributed system software

Maintain distributed system software

Enhance service security

Enhance service durability

Enhance service availability

Enhance service performance

Enhance service cost-efficiency

Design SAP integrations

Perform operational tasks

Analyze build pipelines

Debug distributed failures

Maintain infrastructure

Generate documentation

Design solutions bridging SAP and AWS

Build AI-assisted systems

Harden AI-assisted systems

Design AI-assisted workflows

Ensure reliable production operation

Ensure graceful degradation

Design operational patterns

Leverage AI for monitoring

Leverage AI for incident response

Leverage AI for automation

Improve system resilience

Reduce system complexity

Own full-stack delivery

Emphasize high availability

Emphasize performance

Emphasize fault tolerance

Emphasize customer delight

Build technical specifications

Lead architecture reviews

Lead operational reviews

Partner with cross-functional teams

Represent team externally

Participate in product definition

Participate in architecture reviews

Participate in iterative development

Participate in code review

Participate in operations

Identify partner pain points

Make architectural decisions

Build agents investigating production issues

Validate agents through testing

Iterate based on operational data

Troubleshoot distributed failures

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-team alignment; Partner service teams; Cross-functional teams; Senior engineers and architects

Communication Scope

Professional communication

Process & Methodology

Decomposing complex problems

Full Job Description

This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges. Within ASP, the AI & Strategic Partner Engineering team is seeking a Senior Systems Development Engineer to create solutions that drive the adoption of SAP workloads on AWS and ensure those workloads run with world-class resilience. You'll design, develop, and own back-end subsystems that solve complex distributed system challenges for SAP customers. You'll build and manage AI agents that handle operational tasks (debugging production issues, maintaining infrastructure, and automating repetitive workflows) so engineers can focus on high-judgment work. You'll also work on customer-facing APIs used by millions of applications worldwide. The ideal candidate has deep technical skills in SAP applications and cloud computing, is conversant in both SAP's agentic technologies (Joule, BTP AI Core) and AWS AI services (Bedrock, Amazon Q), and can apply these tools practically to solve real operational problems. Your SAP domain expertise (SAP BASIS, ABAP, and systems architecture knowledge) is essential to making a significant impact. This role demands a self-starter mindset, rapid experimentation, and expertise in resilience engineering, ideal for engineers who love learning, challenging norms, and building systems that enable other builders to ship faster and safer. Key job responsibilities You'll own your team's systems end-to-end: proactively identifying risks, limitations, and deficiencies; decomposing complex problems into straightforward projects others can deliver in parallel; a

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