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System Development Engineer II

Amazon· Amazon WorkSpaces Applications
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USA, WA, Seattle$129.2k - $174.8kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

AWS Applied AI Solutions (AAIS) is building toward a future where every business innovates with Amazon AI teammates. The team designs, builds, and operates scalable and secure services for WorkSpaces Applications, enabling SaaS application streaming and virtual desktop delivery at scale on AWS.

Responsibilities

  • Design, Develop, Deliver, and Operate secure, reliable, and scalable solutions for customer features as well as internal operational improvements.
  • Maintain high standard by delivering high quality in your own work as well as push for a high bar in code, design, and other document reviews for the team.
  • Work across team boundaries and help deliver on team projects by showing a high bar of ownership, earn trust, and deliver results.
  • Develop a deep understanding of the system as well as the overall service, understand core customer usage patterns and workflows. Be part of the team's oncall rotation and help in directly engaging with customers and stakeholders and drive ticket and issue resolution.
  • Demonstrate customer obsession in your work (design, implementation, testing, deployments, operations).
  • Develop your communication skills and leverage written and verbal communication to earn trust and drive consensus and required outcomes while collaborating with team mates and across team-boundaries.
  • Be closely engaged in team meetings and processes and help continuously identify and drive improvements for the team's efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Be a mentor and role model for junior engineers by exemplifying and reinforcing Amazon's LPs every day.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • 3+ 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

Skills

Required:Software developmentSystem design / architectureAdministrative experience in networking, storage, OSProgramming languages

Benefits

  • Base salary with additional compensation including sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
  • Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription), life insurance, optional supplemental life plans, EAP, mental health support, 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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