System Development Engineer,, DSP Analytics

Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · DevOps

In short

Are you interested in building high-performance, globally scalable systems? This role as a System Development Engineer involves building Amazon's business-critical delivery systems and solutions to operate at scale. You will apply your skills in system design, networking, coding, and project organization to improve business processes, automate operations, and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, maintain, and deploy components that solve problems in a complex ecosystem using languages like Python and Java.
Lead migration projects from planning through execution, including infrastructure setup, data replication, traffic management, and post-migration validation.
Identify and implement cost optimization strategies to reduce per-offering costs through automation and streamlined operations.
Lead root cause analysis for high-severity incidents, implement preventive measures, and drive operational improvements across the team's processes and tooling.
Collaborate with service teams across Amazon to identify and resolve migration blockers.
Participate in on-call rotations to ensure operational support for critical migration activities.
Build AI-assisted workflows that streamline migration operations or make day-to-day jobs easier and faster.
Perform deep dives on services with different compute types to generate recommendations for optimization of resources.
Lead the technical direction for complex migration challenges using AWS technologies and modern development practices.
Develop tools in Python and Java to automate critical migration tasks.
Analyze memory efficiency across service fleets.
Support operational excellence through monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure.
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.
4+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science.
Experience in Performance tuning or optimization of compute resources.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with distributed systems at scale.
4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems).

Benefits

Opportunity to build high-performance, globally scalable systems.
Work with top engineering talent in an environment that drives innovation.
Opportunities to learn and grow.
Opportunities to dive deep into complex business and data problems.
Drive large-scale technical solutions.
Raise the bar for operational excellence.
Share ideas and learn from each other.
Use ideas to disrupt the status quo.
Work closely with service teams across Amazon.
Mentor and guide junior engineers.
Foster a culture of operational excellence within the team.
Collaborate with Seattle-based leadership on strategic priorities.

Skills

PythonJavaCI/CDLinuxAWS

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