System Development Engineer, ADC - RAPP (Route 53 and Perimeter Protection)
About the role
AWS established a specialized group of service teams responsible for the work we are doing with the U.S. Intelligence Community. We are building some of the largest and most complex distributed systems in the world, and we need adaptable people to help us implement and operate them. The AWS RAPP (Route 53 and Perimeter Protection) ADC team is seeking highly motivated engineers who are focused on operational excellence, troubleshooting complex system operations, have a good understanding of Linux, networking, and general knowledge of cloud services. We're also looking for engineers who can use their software knowledge to automate the way we manage and scale our services. We need engineers who understand how to think big, and simplify solutions to complex problems; all the while ensuring that our customers continue to have the best experience possible. You will be able to take a defined project, break down the work to help define milestones and feedback mechanisms. You identify when implementations are not highly available or have defects; you investigate systemic patterns. You resolve, mitigate, or escalate operational concerns in a timely manner.
Key job responsibilities
- Ensure Route 53 and Perimeter Protection services are able to offer customers a 100% uptime SLA
- Deploy software, troubleshoot software failures, and minimize the need for human involvements through automation such as infrastructure as code and operator tools
A day in the life
It's always Day 1 at Amazon. On a typical day, a RAPP System Development Engineer manages and monitors systems in air-gapped regions, and builds software based solutions to improve how we manage and monitor our systems.
Basic qualifications
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
- 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
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph
Preferred qualifications
- Experience on highly concurrent, high throughput systems and knowledge of complex distributed systems
Pay
- USA, CO, Denver - 99,100.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually
- USA, MD, Jessup - 99,100.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually
- USA, VA, Arlington - 99,100.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually
- USA, VA, Herndon - 99,100.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually
Benefits
- 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
- Parental leave
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)