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System Development Engineer - AWS Cloudfront, AWS Cloudfront, Platform Services

The System Development Engineer will design, automate, and maintain large-scale Linux bare metal infrastructure to ensure high availability and performance. They will own the hardware lifecycle, including provisioning, patching, and troubleshooting complex system issues.

Seattle, Washington, United StatesonsiteFULL_TIME

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About the role

What will you do at Amazon?

Amazon CloudFront is one of the fastest growing, lowest latency and highest

throughput services in all of AWS. CloudFront is a fast content delivery (CDN)

service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers

globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly

environment. We bring the Internet closer to end users, speeding up the user

experience. CloudFront is integrated with physical locations that are directly

connected to the global infrastructure, as well as other services. CloudFront

enables multiple services including Shield for DDoS mitigation, Amazon S3,

Elastic Load Balancing or Amazon EC2 as origins for your applications, and

Lambda@Edge to run custom code closer to users and to customize the user

experience. Amazon CloudFront uses a global network of edge locations to cache

and route requests to the best possible location based on known latency,

available capacity and many other factors. Amazon CloudFront’s Engineering team

is looking for an experienced Systems Development Engineer to build and develop

new hardware and provisioning platforms, and build automation and tooling of

critical service reliability and efficient functions that are secure, massively

scale, are fault-tolerant, and global. Opportunities with CloudFront include:

- Leading change to develop simple, elegant solutions to complex operational or

reliability challenges

- Utilizing hands-on technical skills to partner with team members and be

comfortable diving into the fray as needed

- Building systems to maintain good “fleet hygiene” and hardware lifecycle

management

- Identifying and developing processes, and tools to address top operational

issues.

As a member of the CloudFront team, you will:

- Operate a business with global infrastructure and customers at a massive scale

- Own one of the lowest latency and highest throughput services in all of AWS

- Work closely with a great team of software developers and principal engineers

- Understand what it takes to grow and operate a global business at scale.

The CloudFront team:

- Is a group of technologists from diverse backgrounds

- Obsesses over our customer’s needs and experience

- Loves building new innovative technologies and improving our existing ones

- Wears multiple hats. We enjoy the prototyping and tinkering stages, as well as

the rigor of making solutions production-ready

- Is fast-growing, agile and collaborative.

Key job responsibilities

The System Development Engineer will design, build, secure, implement, code,

automate, deploy, and root-cause complex system issues accross many different

types of Linux bare metal servers. You will own the availability, security, and

performance of everything Operating system downwards, including the hardware,

firmware, and components. You will automate and scale our the hardware lifecycle

process to be efficient, durable, and fault tolerant. You will ensure our

servers are properly provisioned, patched, upgraded, and in service all the

time.

About the team

*Why AWS*

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted

cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating —

that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies

trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

*Diverse Experiences*

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred

qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates

to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path,

or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

*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.

*Inclusive Team Culture*

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led

affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our

differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our

Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity)

conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

*Mentorship and Career Growth*

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s

Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and

other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded

professional. Basic

Qualifications

  • - 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
  • - 7+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems,
  • operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
  • - Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating
  • systems)
  • - Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#,
  • Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
  • - Experience with Linux/Unix
  • - Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

  • - Experience working in an Agile environment using the
  • Scrum methodology
  • - 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and
  • scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis
  • of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
  • Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our
  • customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or
  • adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the
  • interview or onboarding process, please visit
  • https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations
  • [https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations] for more
  • information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please
  • contact your Recruiting Partner.
  • 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. Amazon also 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
  • [https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits].
  • USA, WA, Seattle - 129,200.00 - 174,800.00 USD annually

Which skills does this role require?

LinuxSystems engineeringNetworkingStorage systemsAutomationC++C#JavaPythonGolangPowerShellRubyHardware lifecycle managementInfrastructure scalingReliability engineeringBare metal server managementCloudFrontUnixSystems EngineeringStorageBare MetalHardware LifecycleFirmwareScalabilityAgileScrumInfrastructureProvisioningPatchingCloud ComputingDDoS MitigationLambda@EdgeElastic Load BalancingAmazon S3GoPrototyping

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