System Development Engineer Amazon Photos
System Development Engineer Amazon Photos
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07-04-2025
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Amazon Photos is looking for a System Development Engineer to build solutions to complex problems within our internal systems. You will ensure that engineering best practices are followed and that the systems you build are reliable scalable and maintainable. In this role you will have the opportunity to work closely across multiple teams in Amazon Photos and beyond spanning engineering technical design and our legal partners. You will serve as a role model and mentor other engineers on the team and thrive in a fastpaced environment where innovation is encouraged.
Who we are looking for: You are an experienced System Development Engineer who has delivered great software. You embrace automation and you have experience in automating processes that scale with the needs of the business. You have experience with infrastructure scalability and endtoend deployment processes including builds testing and final release. You are flexible and willing to build systems spanning multiple areas of influence from internal tooling designed to help teams become more scalable and resilient to systems that provide worldwide regulatory compliance and ensure the trust and safety of our customers.
Key job responsibilities
Design develop and deploy internal tooling to help partner teams become more scalable and resilient
Design develop and deploy systems ensuring regulatory compliance in the places we do business
Design develop and deploy systems that ensure the trust and safety of our customers
Write clean maintainable code and review code from your peers
Work with other team members to investigate design approaches prototype new technologies and evaluate technical feasibility of solutions
Analyze and optimize systems to maximize speed and scale
Improve Operational Excellence including latency and scalability
Help define standards implement them and promote best practices for your team
Collaborate with product managers legal partners and partner teams to develop requirements to solve ambiguous problems driving those requirements to completion
About the team
Amazon Photos helps consumers preserve organize share and relive their memories. The service comes with unlimited photo storage for Prime members with apps available on iOS Android Web Desktop. The service is also integrated into Alexa devices such as Echo Show and Fire TV. We have ambitious goals to scale growth and adoption of the service around the world and delight our customers with a great memories product.
3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience in automating deploying and supporting largescale infrastructure
Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking storage operating systems)
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Golang Java C C# Rust
Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
Experience with distributed systems at scale
Knowledge of database systems and SQL
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
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.
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 for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $116300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Who we are looking for: You are an experienced System Development Engineer who has delivered great software. You embrace automation and you have experience in automating processes that scale with the needs of the business. You have experience with infrastructure scalability and endtoend deployment processes including builds testing and final release. You are flexible and willing to build systems spanning multiple areas of influence from internal tooling designed to help teams become more scalable and resilient to systems that provide worldwide regulatory compliance and ensure the trust and safety of our customers.
Key job responsibilities
Design develop and deploy internal tooling to help partner teams become more scalable and resilient
Design develop and deploy systems ensuring regulatory compliance in the places we do business
Design develop and deploy systems that ensure the trust and safety of our customers
Write clean maintainable code and review code from your peers
Work with other team members to investigate design approaches prototype new technologies and evaluate technical feasibility of solutions
Analyze and optimize systems to maximize speed and scale
Improve Operational Excellence including latency and scalability
Help define standards implement them and promote best practices for your team
Collaborate with product managers legal partners and partner teams to develop requirements to solve ambiguous problems driving those requirements to completion
About the team
Amazon Photos helps consumers preserve organize share and relive their memories. The service comes with unlimited photo storage for Prime members with apps available on iOS Android Web Desktop. The service is also integrated into Alexa devices such as Echo Show and Fire TV. We have ambitious goals to scale growth and adoption of the service around the world and delight our customers with a great memories product.
3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience in automating deploying and supporting largescale infrastructure
Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking storage operating systems)
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Golang Java C C# Rust
Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
Experience with distributed systems at scale
Knowledge of database systems and SQL
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
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.
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 for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $116300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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