What does a System Development Engineer do at Amazon?
On a typical day engineers might dive deep into understanding the root cause of customer issues, investigate why a metric is trending the wrong way, consult with top engineers at Amazon, or discuss radical new approaches to automate operational issues.
Our systems development engineering roles help engineers develop a broad range of skills. Experienced systems development engineers often have leadership impact on their teams by becoming subject matter experts on several services. They develop, build, deploy, operate, sustain, and grow services in cloud production environments. They utilize trends and metrics to identify opportunities for improvement. They help develop and refine procedures used by their team and internal customers. They develop at a high standard and can deal with new and ambiguous problem domains, consistently delivering customer‑impacting change.
Key job responsibilities
* Automate the world's most advanced cloud computing infrastructure
* Simplify and reinvent systems, processes, and tools to make things better for our customers
* Build unique solutions to customers' technical problems
* Study and learn from industry‑recognized Amazon senior and principal engineers
* Coach, hire and develop team members
* Be a catalyst to deliver truly disruptive products that are growing rapidly
* Define, build, own, and run services in high‑growth environments
* Solve unique and first‑order problems in areas such as compute services including containers & serverless, DynamoDB/NoSQL databases, Glacier and S3 data lakes, and many other AWS Services
* Learn how to build and operate distributed systems at scale
* Build and influence the tools and utilities that are part of the AWS fleet running our internal services
Day in the life
* Automating the world's most advanced cloud computing infrastructure
* Simplifying and reinventing systems, processes, and tools to make things better for our customers
* Building unique solutions to our customers' technical problems
* Studying and learning from industry‑recognized Amazon Senior and Principal Engineers
* Coaching, hiring and developing team members
To apply for this role you must be a UK national and able to obtain and maintain a UK Government Security Clearance.
Basic Qualifications
* Experience in Java, C++, Python, or a related language
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with Python or R
Equal Opportunity Employment
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