Description

Amazon Operations Technology is looking for an experienced System Development Engineer to join our CIA Connectivity Services team in Austin, TX. In this role you will be solving challenging problems and developing scalable, high-performing solutions that require minimal long term sustaining and development.

Our team spans all global core services and infrastructure within the Operations Technology space; our systems span over 100,000 Amazonians and hundreds of thousands of IP enabled devices.

Key job responsibilities

In this role:

• You will partner with System Engineers, Network Engineers and Software Engineers globally to develop simple and efficient technology for our Fulfillment Centers and Transportation Sites.

• You will work with a wide variety of technologies and projects that range from third party enterprise solutions to open source and proprietary inventions.

• Technicians and Engineers worldwide will look to you for mentorship, guidance and solutions to complex business problems that are truly unique to Amazon.

• We value performance, simplicity, and scalability in our designs. In your day-to-day work you will focus on automation of complex tasks to allow our business to scale with customer demand.

A day in the life

You will be a part of an agile development team following innovative best practices in software development where you will work on technical designs, architecture and coding. To build our applications, you will interact with network engineering teams to gather requirements, provide technical solutions and develop the software that are required in defining our next generation products.

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options

3. Paid Time Off (PTO)

4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

About the team

Our team exists to enable network engineers to self-serve manage the lifecycle of change on network devices running in all fullfilment centers. We are responsible for delivering application frameworks and foundational pieces that are critical for change management and we do so by showing the utmost customer obsession. As a part of the ConfigOps organization, you’ll get to interact and work with multiple teams to develop an ecosystem end to end covering product conception to shipping on the vast number of Amazon devices in the field.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Austin, TX, USA

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with PowerShell (preferred), Python, Ruby, or Java

• Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.