System Development Engineer, AWS Database Services

Amazon • Herndon, VA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon's world class technical team in Herndon, VA, working with some of the best and brightest engineers and technical managers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere. Amazon Web Service is building some of the largest distributed systems in the world. Amazon's database offerings like Aurora, DynamoDB, EMR, OpenSearch, RDS, and Redshift are massively scaled services that make up a critical piece of the internet today. A successful Engineer joining the team will do much more than write code and triage problems. They will work with Amazon's largest and most demanding customers to address specific needs across a full suite of services. They will dive deep into technical issues and work diligently to improve the customer experience.

Requirements

• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
• 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
• Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
• Current, active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
• Strong Linux & Networking Fundamentals.
• Deep experience working with Linux, preferably in a large scale, distributed environment.
• Understand networking technology and how servers and networks inter-relate.
• Regularly take part in deep-dive troubleshooting and conduct technical post-mortem discussions to identify the root cause of complex issues.
• Love using technology to solve problems.
• Solid understanding of software development methodology and know how to use the right tool for the right job.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with distributed systems at scale
• 5+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
• Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology
• Be great fun to work with.
• Love to code.
• Think Big.

Responsibilities

• Work with Amazon's largest and most demanding customers to address specific needs across a full suite of services.
• Dive deep into technical issues and work diligently to improve the customer experience.
• Build and deploy solutions across thousands of devices.
• Improve and streamline processes to allow for work on a massive scale.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior