System Development Engineer, STRADA

About the Role

AWS Infrastructure Services is responsible for the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure, ensuring customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. The Service Transformation and Deployment Automation team aims to remove all manual touchpoints from service operations within AWS Networking, driving stability, consistency, and sustainability. This position is located in Minneapolis, USA.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain innovative solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
• Write high-quality distributed system software.
• Work in an agile, startup-like development environment.
• Collaborate closely with Network/Systems/Software Engineering teams to ensure smooth roll-out of new designs and products, and assist with deployment and sustaining of networking software tools.
• Use data to measure success and take responsibility for service quality, striving to prevent faults from impacting customers.
• Utilize strong problem-solving skills and the ability to understand and scope solutions.
• Work across teams to drive solutions.
• Contribute to documentation of process and procedures.
• Learn from others and help grow team members.
• Take ownership, consider tradeoffs, and lean on expertise to ensure tasks are completed.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, typically for one week every two months.
• Manage customers during problem resolution and operate efficiently under pressure.
• Sit at the computer during scheduled work hours with appropriate breaks while maintaining a high level of alertness and attention to detail.
• Travel to data center/network sites and Amazon/customer offices as needed.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• 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#, or Rust.
• Experience with Linux/Unix.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes.
• Experience with distributed systems at scale.

Qualifications

• You will be responsible for the design, implementation, and quality of services you deliver.
• Your experience working in software development or in an enterprise environment will help us implement automated solutions across a variety of applications and systems.