System Development Engineer , AWS Supply Chain Finance

The AWS Supply Chain Finance team is looking for a System Development Engineer to design and build scalable automation infrastructure that transforms manual financial processes into efficient self-service systems. Youll architect solutions using cloud platforms and modern engineering practices to improve operational excellence reduce costs and enable our finance and business partners to work with greater velocity and less operational burden.

In this role youll work directly with business stakeholders to understand operational pain points design technical solutions and build end-to-end systems that combine multiple technologies to deliver optimal business outcomes. Youll own the full lifecycle from design through deployment and operations. While youll maintain some existing automation solutions the primary focus is building next-generation infrastructure aligned with our strategic direction toward cloud-native and AI-enabled automation.

Key job responsibilities

Build Automation Infrastructure
Design and implement scalable automation systems using cloud platforms and modern development practices
Build workflow orchestration and data processing solutions for financial operations
Develop integration solutions that connect financial systems and enable seamless data flow
Build monitoring alerting and observability solutions to ensure system reliability
Research and prototype AI-enabled automation solutions aligned with our strategic roadmap

Drive Operational Excellence
Own the operational health of automation infrastructure ensuring high availability and performance
Maintain and support existing automation solutions
Participate in design reviews code reviews and operational readiness discussions
Implement best practices for testing deployment and incident response
Document architectures runbooks and operational procedures

Collaborate Across Teams
Partner with business stakeholders to analyze existing processes and identify automation opportunities
Work with partner teams to integrate automation solutions with existing systems
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members
Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs effectively

Innovate and Improve
Identify opportunities to eliminate manual work through automation
Research and evaluate new technologies and approaches
Continuously improve system reliability cost-efficiency and performance
Share knowledge and best practices with the broader team


About the team
Our vision is to strengthen financial decisions and processes through data insights and automation simplifying complexity and unlocking business value. Our mission is to deliver solutions that enable data-driven financial decisions enhance operational efficiency and strengthen controllership. We empower our business and finance partners by: providing CapEx rate planning tools; delivering analytics for inventory spend and cost analysis; managing Cost Adjustment processes for financial accuracy; developing automated solutions to streamline processes; maintaining secure data infrastructure for analytics reporting and automation.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Golang Java C C# Rust
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development life cycle including agile methodologies coding standards code reviews source management build processes testing and operations
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems or experience in development or technical support
- Experience writing and publishing technical documents or equivalent
- Experience that includes strong analytical skills attention to detail and effective communication abilities

- Experience building services using AWS products
- Experience utilizing AWS cloud solutions in a DevOps environment
- Knowledge of database systems and SQL
- Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology
- Experience in tax finance or a related analytical field or experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
- Experience working effectively across cross-functional teams and partnering well with people at all levels within an organization

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