Systems Development Engineer, S3

Amazon • Herndon, VA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

One of the world’s highest scale storage platforms is currently looking for a Systems Development Engineer with an obsession for automation. This role involves working directly with people to diagnose their needs, deliver a solution, and watch it solve their problems. The ideal candidate believes in a full-lifecycle, DevOps-based, software development process that delivers well-designed, tested, and resilient solutions. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of Amazon’s fastest growing businesses, powering developers globally. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is storage for the Internet, providing durable data storage at minimal cost with virtually limitless capacity. The S3 Unique Regions group is responsible for S3 service in AWS regions beyond regular public service offerings, including private regions for the U.S. government with stringent security requirements. This group operates the S3 service, keeps it up-to-date with public service features, and meets security and architecture requirements of each unique region. This position requires a candidate to possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph and opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
• 4+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience
• 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 4+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

Nice To Haves

• 1+ years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Bash/Perl) experience
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• Experience taking a leading role in building complex software or computing infrastructure that has been successfully delivered to customers

Responsibilities

• Technical lead for small engineering team through the full software lifecycle.
• Identify, plan, deliver, and operate software and processes that generate Customer Obsessed, business impacting improvements for AWS operations.
• Work with AWS engineers to identify process automation opportunities.
• Perform full-lifecycle software development with constant customer interaction to scope, design, implement, test, deliver, and operate software solutions.
• Learn and grow using a DevOps, Agile Scrum, incremental delivery philosophy with highly-supportive peers constantly sharing subject matter expertise and producing peer-reviewed code.
• Participate in on-call rotation supporting our own automation solutions and eventually move to the on-call rotation that operates the entire S3 service itself in unique regions.

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
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

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