Systems Development Engineer II, AWS Managed Operations (MO) AWSOM Team

About the role

The AWS Managed Operations (MO) organization was founded in April 2023, with the objective to reduce operational load and toil through long-term engineering projects. Managed Operations (MO) is building the best-in-class engineering and operations team that will own the day-to-day operations for AWS Regions; improving the availability, reliability, latency, performance and efficiency to operate AWS regions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base.
• Balanced day-to-day operations of AWS' software systems with long-term software engineering to reduce operational toil.
• Build solutions to innovate our solutions to agentic-first interfaces.
• Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
• Leverage Generative AI tools and AI-assisted development environments to accelerate prototyping, development, validation, and testing workflows.
• Apply GenAI capabilities to accelerate test case generation, integration testing, and validation of complex infrastructure components — reducing cycle times without sacrificing quality or security rigor.
• Awareness of the responsible use of GenAI in security-sensitive environments, including understanding of data handling boundaries, model limitations, and appropriate human-in-the-loop validation practices.

Requirements

• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• 3+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience.
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust.
• Experience developing, deploying and managing AI products at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering.
• Experience with distributed systems at scale.

Skills

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including 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, 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.

Schedule

Work/Life Balance: We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.