Systems Development Engineer, Faraday

Application deadline: Dec 12 2025

The AWS Region Services team is hiring a cleared Systems Development Engineer to support cloud security services for the U.S. Intelligence Community. Our team is tasked with protecting the AWS infrastructure that is used by our National Security customers. Join our mission to help lead deploy and support the security systems that raise the security bar for the U.S. Government!

The Faraday team supports customer-facing security services in Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) regions including GuardDuty Security Hub Inspector Security Lake Detective and Macie.

As a Systems Development Engineer on our team youll use AI tooling and your coding skills to automate the delivery and operations of security services at scale.

If you thrive in operating complex systems and resolving the hardest problems please apply! Were not looking for hands or button pressers -- were looking for motivated individuals to create solutions.

This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance. The position further requires that after start the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

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Key job responsibilities
- Operate within the team of peer engineers with lots of personal autonomy to solve complex systems engineering problems through innovative approaches.
- Provide guidance on system architecture and recommend solutions in alignment with systems engineering best practices.
- Calmly and quickly diagnose and fix critical system failures in high pressure situations to reduce Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR).
- Engineer Operational Improvements to reduce operational efforts to Keep the Lights On.
- Troubleshoot unknown-unknown problems into known-known root causes using your holistic knowledge of systems to break the problem down and isolate the cause(s); then drive them to resolution

About the team
Why AWS
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Utility Computing (UC)
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Work/Life Balance
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Mentorship and Career Growth
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Diverse Experiences
Amazon 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.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Golang Java C C# Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- Current active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret with SCI eligibility or above

- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- Experience in automating deploying and supporting large-scale infrastructure

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. For salaried roles your Amazon package will include listed sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at $129200 - $174800 annually
National $116300 - $201200 annually