Sr. Systems Dev Engineer, AI & Strategic Partner Engineering

This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy recruiting development and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.

Within ASP the AI & Strategic Partner Engineering team is seeking a Senior Systems Development Engineer to create solutions that drive the adoption of SAP workloads on AWS and ensure those workloads run with world-class resilience. Youll design develop and own back-end subsystems that solve complex distributed system challenges for SAP customers. Youll build and manage AI agents that handle operational tasks (debugging production issues maintaining infrastructure and automating repetitive workflows) so engineers can focus on high-judgment work. Youll also work on customer-facing APIs used by millions of applications worldwide.

The ideal candidate has deep technical skills in SAP applications and cloud computing is conversant in both SAPs agentic technologies (Joule BTP AI Core) and AWS AI services (Bedrock Amazon Q) and can apply these tools practically to solve real operational problems. Your SAP domain expertise (SAP BASIS ABAP and systems architecture knowledge) is essential to making a significant impact. This role demands a self-starter mindset rapid experimentation and expertise in resilience engineering ideal for engineers who love learning challenging norms and building systems that enable other builders to ship faster and safer.


Key job responsibilities
Youll own your teams systems end-to-end: proactively identifying risks limitations and deficiencies; decomposing complex problems into straightforward projects others can deliver in parallel; and setting the standards for engineering and operational excellence that your team adopts. Youll define the technical direction for your teams systems own architectural decisions and drive cross-team alignment building resilient partner-driven solutions alongside senior engineers and architects.

Youll design implement deploy and maintain innovative distributed system software that enhances service security durability availability performance and cost-efficiency for SAP workloads on AWS. Your SAP domain expertise including SAP BASIS ABAP and knowledge of SAP systems architecture is essential to designing integrations that meet the needs of enterprise customers and the SAP community.

Youll create and manage purpose-built AI agents that perform operational tasks: triaging alarms diagnosing root causes analyzing build pipelines managing fleet health and tracking fixes. Youll use AI tools daily to debug complex distributed failures build and maintain infrastructure and generate documentation treating AI as a force multiplier for systems engineering work. Youll be conversant in SAPs agentic ecosystem (Joule BTP AI Core SAP AI Launchpad) and AWS AI services (Bedrock Amazon Q Step Functions) to design solutions that bridge both platforms.

Youll design build and harden AI-assisted systems and workflows ensuring they run reliably in production degrade gracefully under failure and meet the resilience bar required for mission-critical SAP workloads. Youll design operational patterns that leverage AI for monitoring incident response and automation to improve system resilience and reduce complexity for other builders.

Youll own full-stack delivery from design through production emphasizing high availability performance fault tolerance and customer delight. Youll build detailed technical specifications lead architecture and operational reviews and partner with cross-functional teams (Product Security AI Research) to influence roadmaps through data and credibility. You represent your team externally to partner service teams and leadership. All team members actively participate in product definition architecture reviews iterative development code review and operations. Clear professional communication with teammates customers and partners is essential.


A day in the life
Youll identify partner pain points and make architectural decisions that blend resilience scalability security and innovation. Youll build agents that investigate production issues end-to-end validate them through testing and iterate based on real operational data. Youll lead design reviews troubleshoot complex distributed failures across system boundaries using AI-assisted diagnostics and document decisions to empower future teams. When you recognize that the most appropriate solution requires expertise you lack you own the problem but partner with experts to ensure the correct solution is built. Occasional travel may be required based on engineering work requirements with partners.

About the team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough but kind code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.

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- 6 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 6 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Bachelors degree
- 5 years of programming with at least one modern language such as C C# Java Python Golang PowerShell Ruby experience
- Expertise in SAP Domain including SAP ABAP programming language skills as well as knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite S/4HANA SAP Business Warehouse SAP HANA SAP Business Objects etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs
- Experience building with AI/ML technologies including large language models generative AI or agentic systems with demonstrated ability to apply AI tools to operational tasks such as debugging monitoring or infrastructure management
- Experience leading the delivery of technology solutions across multiple teams including decomposing complex problems into projects deliverable by others

- Deep knowledge of AWS services including compute storage networking security databases machine learning and serverless technologies. Experience architecting solutions spanning multiple AWS service domains in a multi-tiered distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture)
- Experience with both SAPs agentic technologies (Joule BTP AI Core SAP AI Launchpad) and AWS AI services (Bedrock Amazon Q Step Functions)

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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 - 151200.00 - 204600.00 USD annually