Sr Systems Development Engineer AWS Managed Operations MO AWSOM Team

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 longterm engineering projects. Managed Operations (MO) is building the bestinclass engineering and operations team that will own the daytoday operations for AWS Regions; improving the availability reliability latency performance and efficiency to operate AWS regions.

Amazon is looking for highly motivated Senior Systems Development Engineers who can balance the daytoday operations of AWS software systems with longterm 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 worlds largest cloud providers.

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Key job responsibilities
Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams projects and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. Youll bring a passion for innovation data search analytics and distributed systems.

Youll also:

Solve challenging technical problems often ones not solved before at every layer of the stack.



A day in the life
Youll roughly spend 50 of your time operating production systems and 50 making longterm 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 theres actually a common thread to those bug fixes yesterday and designed a solution to that class of problem seeking feedback from your team. On Wednesday you investigated a Service Level Objective (SLO) that recently became less than useful. You dove deep talked with the partner team and found out the thresholds nolonger makes sense so you updated their infrastructure as code (IaC) to fix it. Then on Thursday and Friday you were developing software with your team on a system you designed which safely replaces the fleets in your teams care with a more optimal hardware type increasing the performance whilst decreasing its carbon emissions.

About the team
Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

About AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Utility Computing (UC)

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS.

Inclusive Team Culture

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Mentorship & Career Growth

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Work/Life Balance

We value worklife harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.

5 years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
5 years of systems development in an IT or data center environment experience
3 years of systems design software development operations automation and process improvement experience
3 years of programming with at least one modern language such as C C# Java Python Golang PowerShell Ruby experience
Experience leading the design build and deployment of complex and performant (reliable and scalable) software solutions in production

6 years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
6 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
4 years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Bash/Perl) experience
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Golang Java C C# Rust
Experience taking a leading role in building complex software or computing infrastructure that has been successfully delivered to customers

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