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. 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 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
Play a significant role in building new systems and solutions
Drive an environment of continuous improvement and truly innovative efficiency
Work crossfunctionally with other teams to continually improve operational readiness and availability
Anticipate bottlenecks make tradeoffs and encourage risktaking to maximize business benefit
Evaluate and recommend new and emerging products and technologies
Drive operation excellence in your organization
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.
Over the course of a week this could look like; Monday morning you root caused why some deployments recently failed and in the afternoon you made fixes for those bugs. Tuesday and Wednesday you executed a highly sensitive time critical change to production. Thursday and Friday you were developing software with your team to remove humans from the loop on problems like you worked on over the previous two days driving a common source of error out of the system and improving its reliability.
About the team
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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.
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3 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
3 years of administrative experience in networking storage systems operating systems and handson systems engineering experience
Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking storage operating systems)
2 years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Bash/Perl) experience
Bachelors degree
5 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
5 years of administrative experience in networking storage systems operating systems and handson systems engineering experience
3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
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