Sr. Systems Development Engineer - Ground Infrastructure, Amazon Leo

Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

About the role

As a Sr. System Development Engineer, you will build tools and processes for monitoring, operating, and scaling ground infrastructure to millions of users around the globe. Use and enhance the tools you and the team develop. Using metrics, scalability in design, and continuous improvement, you will automate repetitive processes to eliminate outages and enable high availability of the ground infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Continuously strive for operational excellence by seeking to automate away manual processes
• Ensure that all systems are designed to be robust, scalable, maintainable and adaptable as the service scales and evolves over time
• Build and maintain critical infrastructure, tools and operating procedures to report on the health of ground infrastructure
• Integrate with other existing systems such as trouble ticketing, dashboards, and metrics tools and services
• Measure and improve the performance and availability of the Kuiper Ground Infrastructure
• Provide critical operations support and incident response for the service, while taking part in an on-call rotation

A day in the life

• Mentoring, Design, Coding, Operational Excellence
• Work with business partners, leadership and other engineers, influence and lead the design of systems
• Day-to-day work will vary between automation or other scripting work, operational excellence initiatives, design meetings, coordination with engineering teams and external partners, and an on-call rotation

About the team

The team is comprised of a leader and System Development Engineers in North America, Europe and Australia. The overall mission is to ensure Kuiper Ground Infrastructure is always available to serve customers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
• Knowledge of at least one modern programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Perl
• Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience writing technical documents, project plans and progress reports to leadership and to stakeholders
• Curious to learn in depth about both technology and our customers
• A curious self-starter with a proven track record of diving into unknown territory, learning new concepts, and pushing your comfort zone
• An effective multi-tasker who navigates a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment with grace and efficiency

Pay

USA, WA, Bellevue - $151,200.00 - $204,600.00 USD annually

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans)
• Employee Assistance Program (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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.