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System Development Engineer, AWS Region Reliability (Greyjoy)

Amazon· Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
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Seattle, WA$151.2k - $204.6kfull-timePosted 2d ago

About the role

SysDE III on the AWS Region Reliability Engineering (RRE) Greyjoy team focused on ensuring availability and reliability of Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) isolated regions. Responsibilities include designing, building, and operating automation and tooling to reduce toil and improve reliability across ADC workflows, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain automation tooling that improves operational efficiency across ADC isolated region workflows, including host maintenance, deployments, credential rotation, and resource synthesis
  • Own and operate production systems end-to-end, from development through deployment, monitoring, and incident response in a Linux/Unix environment
  • Lead root cause analysis for high-severity operational events and drive corrective actions that improve system reliability and reduce MTTR
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation to support safe, repeatable changes across cloud infrastructure
  • Develop scripts, tools, and services using languages such as Python, Java, Ruby, or Golang to reduce manual toil and scale operational processes
  • Collaborate with cross-functional service teams to identify reliability gaps and deliver solutions that meet or exceed operational SLAs
  • Mentor and guide junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and engineering best practices
  • Contribute to operational excellence initiatives by creating runbooks, improving monitoring and alerting, and driving process improvements across the team
  • Participate in on-call rotations and respond to operational events to maintain the availability of critical AWS infrastructure

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
  • 3+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
  • 4+ 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
  • 4+ years of systems development in an IT or data center environment experience
  • 4+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
  • 2+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience
  • Experience leading the design, build and deployment of complex and performant software solutions in production
  • Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

Skills

Required:Automation toolingLinux/UnixCI/CDProgramming languagesincident response / RCAs

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
  • Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
  • EAP, Mental Health Support
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • RSUs as part of compensation package
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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