Amazon Operations Technology is looking for an experienced System Development Engineer to join our Imperium Network Device Lifecycle Management team in Austin. In this role you will be solving challenging problems and developing scalable highperforming solutions that require minimal long term sustaining and development. Our team is responsible for software managing the lifecycle of network devices in global fulfillment centers; our systems span over 100000 Amazonians and hundreds of thousands of IP enabled devices.
In this role you will partner with peer Software System and Network Engineers globally to develop simple and efficient technology that supports Amazons fulfillment network. You will work with a wide variety of technologies and projects that range from third party enterprise solutions to open source and proprietary inventions. Technicians and Engineers worldwide will look to you for mentorship guidance and solutions to complex business problems that are truly unique to Amazon. We value performance simplicity and scalability in our designs. In your daytoday work you will focus on automation of complex tasks to allow our business to scale with customer demand and let your fellow network engineers to focus on complex problems rather than mundane tasks.
Key job responsibilities
As a System Development Engineer at Amazon you will take your technical experience to create new and enhance existing frameworks for managing network devices lifecycle at Amazon fulfillment centers such as new device provisioning or software updates. These critical frameworks will make it faster and easier for customers to manage these network devices at scale. If you have a passion for network management applications and making generic toolkits this is an ideal position for you. This role will allow you to push the boundaries by thinking big of what customers can do by driving efficient and scalable solutions. You will be challenged to create OS agnostic services and tools while also optimizing for performance and ease of use by customers.
Ideal candidates will use their experience to clearly communicate and translate requirements into elegant solutions. You will work in a reactive flexible and partnering peer environment.
A day in the life
You will be a part of an agile development team following innovative best practices in software development where you will work on technical designs architecture and coding. To build our applications you will interact with network engineering teams to gather requirements provide technical solutions and develop the software that are required in defining our next generation products.
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location the number of regularly scheduled hours you work length of employment and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment.
The benefits that generally apply to regular fulltime employees include:
Medical Dental and Vision Coverage
Maternity and Parental Leave Options
Paid Time Off (PTO)
401(k) Plan
If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly wed still love to hear from you!
At Amazon we value people with unique backgrounds experiences and skillsets. If youre passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale please apply!
About the team
Our team exists to enable network engineers to selfserve manage the lifecycle of network devices running in all fulfillment centers. We are responsible for delivering application frameworks and foundational pieces that are critical for device management and we do so by showing the utmost customer obsession. As a part of Network Device Lifecycle Management team youll get to interact and work with multiple teams to develop an ecosystem end to end covering product conception to shipping on the vast number of Amazon devices in the field.
2 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Golang Java C C# Rust
Experience in automating deploying and supporting largescale infrastructure
Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
Experience building services using AWS products
Experience with distributed systems at scale
Experience in networking storage systems operating systems and handson systems engineering
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
2 years of noninternship professional software development experience
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