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System Development Engineer II, Serverless

Amazon· Operations, IT, & Support Engineering
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Denver$129.2k - $174.8kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Cleared Systems Development Engineer to join AWS Lambda and container services team within the Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC), focusing on serverless and container solutions in air-gapped environments for US Government agencies.

Responsibilities

  • Designing and building automation, tooling, and CI/CD pipelines that enable safe, continuous delivery of AWS Lambda and container services into isolated cloud environments
  • Identifying and eliminating operational toil through software: replacing manual processes with self-service tools, automated remediation, and scalable infrastructure
  • Diving deep into service inter-dependencies and region-specific configurations to find root causes and drive permanent resolutions through code
  • Proactively identifying and resolving system variances that could affect major services globally, before they impact customers
  • Building and maintaining monitoring, alerting, and observability systems that ensure fault tolerance across distributed serverless and container infrastructure
  • Collaborating with commercial service teams to understand architecture changes and implement ADC-specific adaptations
  • On-call support across Serverless and Container technology stacks
  • Contributing to development efforts across internal service teams to improve system health, maintainability, operational efficiency, tooling, and product builds
  • Supporting complex customer technical challenges and driving global solutions through software

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
  • 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
  • Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
  • Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
  • Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret with SCI eligibility or above

Skills

Required:Automation and CI/CDSoftware to eliminate toil
Nice to have:Distributed systems

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
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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