System Development Engineer II, Platform Engineering and Emerging Technologies
About the role
The Platform Engineering and Emerging Technologies (PEET) team is hiring for a System Development Engineer to support AWS Cryptography and PKI Services. You'll design, deploy, monitor, and automate infrastructure, tools, and systems to provide a highly-available and resilient platform for our customers' and our team's workloads.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, monitor, and automate infrastructure, tools and systems to provide a highly-available and resilient platform for our customers' and our team's workloads.
- This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week in every six.
- We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant.
- When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
- 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
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above
Qualifications
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology
Skills
- Experience with cloud computing technologies
- Ability to solve complex technical problems
Benefits
Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
Pay
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.
- Arlington - $129,200.00 - $174,800.00 USD annually
- Herndon - $129,200.00 - $174,800.00 USD annually
Schedule
Our schedule is flexible to accommodate on-call responsibilities, typically for one week in every six.