Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Cloud Computing

SystemsDevelopmentEngineer,AWSManagedOperations(MO)AWSOMTeam

$116–201k Herndon, Virginia, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid+ candidates.

The Brief

“Systems Development Engineer, AWS Managed Operations (MO) AWSOM Team at Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.. Skills: Systems development, Cloud operations, Software engineering. Solve challenging technical problems. Operate production systems”

What You'll Achieve.

Reduce operational load; Reduce operational toil; Improve availability; Improve reliability; Improve latency; Improve performance; Improve efficiency

Industry & Context.

Cloud Computing
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis; Diving deep

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years designing or architecting systems, 3+ years administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems, Hands-on systems engineering experience, Programming with Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, or Rust

Nice to Have

5+ years administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems, Experience with distributed systems at scale, 2+ years non-internship professional software development experience

What You'll Do.

Solve challenging technical problems

Operate production systems

Improve reliability of software systems

Improve availability of software systems

Improve performance of software systems

Identify common threads in bug fixes

Design solutions for classes of problems

Seek feedback from team

Investigate Service Level Objectives

Update infrastructure as code

Replace system fleets

Decrease carbon emissions

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate across diverse teams; Collaborate with partner teams; Work with development teams

Full Job Description

Do you love decomposing problems to develop products that impact millions of people around the world? Would you enjoy identifying, defining, and building software solutions that revolutionize how businesses operate? Would you enjoy diving deep into operating and improving some of the largest software systems humanity has ever built? Do the challenges that come of driving technical, business, and cultural change to improve the reliability, performance, and efficiency excite you? The AWS Managed Operations (MO) organization was founded in April 2023, with the objective to reduce operational load and toil through long-term engineering projects. Managed Operations (MO) is building the best-in-class engineering and operations team that will own the day-to-day operations for AWS Regions; improving the availability, reliability, latency, performance and efficiency to operate AWS regions. Amazon is looking for highly motivated Systems Development Engineers who can balance the day-to-day operations of AWS’ software systems with long-term software engineering to reduce operational toil. We need engineers who enjoy constantly learning and diving deep into the wide range of systems and technologies that make up one of the world’s largest cloud providers. Key job responsibilities Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. You’ll bring a passion for innovation, data, search, analytics, and distributed systems. You’ll also: - Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack. A day in the life You’ll roughly spend 50% of your time operating production systems and 50% making long-term improvements to the reliability, availability, and performance of those software systems. An example week could look like: Monday morning you root caused why some deployments recently failed, and in the afternoon, you made fixes for those bugs. Tuesday you realized ther

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