Systems Development Engineer II, AWS WorkSpaces

As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization we have a vision to provide business applications leveraging Amazons unique experience and expertise that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazons real-world experience to build opinionated turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

Come change the way the world sees the cloud! Amazon WorkSpaces is a managed desktop computing service in the cloud. Amazon WorkSpaces allows customers to easily provision cloud-based desktops that allow end-users to access the documents applications and resources they need with the device of their choice including laptops iPad Kindle Fire Android tablets and zero clients. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console customers can provision a high-quality cloud desktop experience (for Windows or Linux) for any number of users at a cost that is highly competitive with traditional desktops and half the cost of most virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions.

We are looking for cross platform systems development engineers who are passionate about building maintaining and automating the systems that underpin the robust WorkSpaces-fleet system. On any given day we use Python Lambda DynamoDB CloudFormation PowerShell as well as other public AWS services and a host of Amazon-internal tools. We dont expect you to be an expert in or necessarily even be familiar with all of the technologies listed above but we do expect you to be excited to learn about them!

In this role youll help WorkSpaces-Fleet expand into new regions remove development friction through automation and collaborate with a team of Systems Developers to help shape the future for the next generation of services to help customers reduce the mean-time-to manage their WorkSpaces. Youll apply your creative and critical problem solving skills to develop and run multi-tenant at massive scale services.

WorkSpaces is changing the way that people use computers - come help us make history!



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- 2 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 1 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 7 years of administrative experience in networking storage systems operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking storage operating systems)
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C C# Java Python Golang PowerShell Ruby
- Bachelors degree
- Experience debugging and systems analysis to identify and quickly resolve or mitigate issues
- 5 years of provisioning migrating and managing end user computing and related services experience

- Experience with PowerShell (preferred) Python Ruby or Java
- Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology
- Knowledge of infrastructure automation delivered through the software development lifecycle in an API-enabled environment including agile development software architecture/patterns and modern cloud services
- Knowledge of fundamentals of networking security databases (relational or NoSQL) operating systems (Unix Linux and/or Windows)
- Experience with AWS technologies like Redshift S3 AWS Glue EMR Kinesis FireHose Lambda and IAM roles and permissions
- Good understanding of Active Directory and other identity providers such as Jump cloud Azure Entra.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include 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 WA Seattle - 129200.00 - 174800.00 USD annually