System Development Engineer, Elastic Disaster Recovery, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

About the role

We are looking for a Systems Development Engineer to build the automation, tooling, and operational infrastructure that keep this large-scale, mission-critical service reliable, secure, and efficient. In this role you will treat operations as a software problem — eliminating manual toil, hardening our deployment and monitoring systems, and ensuring our replication and recovery fleet runs flawlessly across a broad and heterogeneous environment. A key dimension of this role is breadth: DRS supports a wide range of operating systems (multiple Linux distributions and Windows versions) and both x86/64 and ARM64 (Graviton) architectures, so your automation and tooling must be robust across diverse OS and hardware combinations.

Key job responsibilities

• Operational automation: Design and build software that automates infrastructure provisioning, deployments, and recurring operational workflows, reducing manual effort and on-call burden across the DRS fleet.
• CI/CD and deployment safety: Build and improve pipelines, deployment guardrails, and rollback mechanisms to ship changes safely across all regions and platform variants.
• Cross-platform support: Develop and maintain tooling that works reliably across a wide range of operating systems (various Linux distributions and Windows) and both x86/64 and ARM64 (Graviton) architectures.
• Monitoring and resilience: Implement monitoring, alarming, and self-healing systems to detect and remediate issues before they impact customers' replication and recovery operations.
• Scaling and performance: Tune and scale the systems behind continuous replication, capacity management, and recovery orchestration to handle growth gracefully.
• Operational excellence: Drive down ticket and incident volume through durable, programmatic fixes; lead root-cause analysis and contribute to runbooks and operational best practices.
• Security and compliance: Partner with security teams to harden the service and remediate findings, ensuring fixes are deployed consistently across the fleet.
• Cross-team leverage: Build automation and tooling that serves multiple teams and raises the operational bar across DRS.

About the team

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is a disaster recovery service provided by AWS that enables organizations to minimize downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications. DRS uses cost-effective AWS resources to maintain an up-to-date copy of source servers on AWS, allowing for point-in-time recovery and failback to the primary site after an issue is resolved.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems at scale

Pay

• USA, CA, Santa Clara: 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually
• USA, MA, Boston: 129,200.00 - 174,800.00 USD annually