Sr Systems Development Engineer Managed Operations

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 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.

Amazon will provide relocation support for successful applicants relocating within the European Union.

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
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Work/Life Balance
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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 including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.


5 years of experience in software development or related field
Experience operating and troubleshooting reliable scalable software systems
Proficient in at least one modern programming language such as Java Typescript Python or Ruby
Able to troubleshoot at all levels from network to operating systems to software applications
Successful applicants must have the legal right to work in Germany

Proficient in operating 24x7 highavailability distributed software applications.
Experience leading strategic team efforts requiring work from multiple team members.
Experience actively mentoring other engineers.
Strong understanding of network fundamentals
(DNS DHCP TCP/IP routing load balancing load shedding).
Proficient with Infrastructure as Code (such as CDK CloudFormation Puppet Chef Ansible or similar) and monitoring frameworks.
Experience scripting operating system tasks in Bash Python etc.

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