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Sr. Systems Development Engineer, Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS)

Amazon· Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS)
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Santa Clara, CA, Seattle, WA$173.9k - $235.2kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior systems development engineer role focused on designing, building, and operating large-scale, VMware-based workloads on AWS via the EVS platform. Involves product definition, architecture reviews, development, testing, and customer interaction to enable high-performance, scalable VMware solutions on AWS.

Responsibilities

  • As a SysDE in the VMware team, you'll work alongside other builders, principal engineers, and business leaders to create new capabilities that provide enhanced experience for our customers running VMware workloads.
  • Participate in product definition, technical architecture reviews, iterative development, code review, and operations.
  • Interact with customers to understand and ensure their needs are met.
  • Maintain clear, professional verbal and written communication with teammates and customers.
  • Lead performance testing and/ or benchmarking of AWS infrastructure for VMware workloads and drive continuous improvements.
  • Design and implement software-defined networking solutions, such as virtual switches and overlay networks, to enable flexible and programmable network infrastructure.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree, or Bachelor of Arts degree
  • 6+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • Experience with PowerShell (preferred), Python, Ruby, or Java
  • Hands on deep technical experience with VMware technologies, including, ESXi, vSAN, NSX and VCF

Skills

Required:VMware technologiesAutomation scriptingPerformance testing / benchmarkingNetworking / software-defined networkingCommunication

Benefits

  • Base salary plus sign-on payments and RSUs
  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and life insurance options
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave
  • Comprehensive benefits overview as per Amazon benefits page
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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