System Development Engineer, Pyxis ADC

About the Role

Join Amazon Web Services (AWS) on the Pyxis ADC team, providing foundational services for Amazon builders to develop, deploy, and operate software. This role operates critical services in secure, isolated environments, ensuring parity, reliability, and security. You will operate services at scale, drive deployment parity, build automation for sensitive workloads, and improve the builder experience by diving deep into complex distributed systems issues.

Key Responsibilities

• Operate services at scale in air-gapped environments where standard commercial tooling does not exist.
• Drive cross-partition deployment parity.
• Build automation that keeps Amazon's most sensitive workloads shipping safely.
• Dive deep into complex distributed systems issues.
• Improve the builder experience.
• Review deployment health across isolated regions, checking alarms and on-call handoffs.
• Conduct code reviews for cross-partition automation fixes.
• Participate in design discussions for bringing new ASBX service capabilities to air-gapped environments.
• Troubleshoot deployment pipeline issues, tracing them from orchestration logs to configuration mismatches.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Active TS/SCI security clearance required to start.
• Must obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work, after start.
• Strong Linux & Networking Fundamentals, preferably in large-scale, distributed environments.
• Understanding of networking technology and how services communicate across isolated boundaries.
• Experience with deep-dive troubleshooting and technical post-mortem discussions.
• Solid understanding of software development methodology and CI/CD practices.
• Ability to build and deploy solutions enabling thousands of Amazon builders to ship software reliably across multiple isolated regions.
• Processes to improve and streamline delivery at massive scale.
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby.
• Experience with tools for automation (building, testing, releasing or monitoring).
• Associate's degree or above, or CND (Certified Network Defender) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials).

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of and proficiency in the use of Python scripting language.
• Experience on highly concurrent, high throughput systems.
• Knowledge of complex distributed systems.

About Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, pioneering cloud computing and continuously innovating.

About the Team

The Pyxis ADC team provides foundational services for Amazon builders, including Apollo, Pipelines, Test on Demand/Hydra, AppConfig, Multi-Region, Builder MCP, and AIM. The team operates in Amazon's most secure and isolated environments.