• Would you like to help implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve the world's most complex technical problems? Do you have a deep passion and desire to engineer and operate the world's largest cloud computing infrastructure to provide a better world for future generations?
• We need exceptionally motivated people who are driven by learning and innovation
• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby

Desirable

• If you join us, you'll be part of a world-class team in a dynamic environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain world class experience in cloud computing
• You'll be surrounded by people who are passionate about cloud computing, believe that first class service is critical to customer success, and are committed to improvement
• Be a catalyst to deliver truly disruptive products that are growing rapidly
• Define, build, own, and run services in high growth environment
• Solve unique and first-order problems in areas such as compute services including containers & serverless, DynamoDB/NoSQL databases, Glacier and S3 data lakes, and many other AWS Services
• Learn how to build and operate distributed systems at scale
• Build and influence the tools and utilities that are part of the AWS fleet running our internal services
• Our systems development engineering roles help engineers develop a broad range of skills
• Experienced systems development engineers often have leadership impact on their teams by becoming subject matter experts on several services
• They develop, build, deploy, operate, sustain, and grow the services in cloud production environments
• They are able to utilize trends and metrics to identify opportunities for improvements
• They help develop and refine procedures used by their team and internal customers
• They are able to develop at a high standard and can deal with new and ambiguous problem domains, while consistently delivering customer impacting change
• Our systems development engineers spend time:
• Automating the world's most advanced cloud computing infrastructure
• Simplifying and reinventing systems, processes, and tools to make things better for our customers
• Building unique solutions to our customers’ technical problems
• Studying and learning from industry recognized Amazon senior and Principal engineers
• Coaching, hiring and developing team members
• We own our services and believe in making out-of-hours support as painless as possible
• On a typical day engineers might dive deep into understanding the root cause of customer issue, investigate why a metric is trending the wrong way, consult with top engineers at Amazon, or discuss radical new approaches to automate operational issues