System Development Engineer, AWS IoT Foundational Services Infrastructure

As part of the AWS Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazons unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazons real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

Are you a System Development Engineer who wants to design and build back-end systems and software that support connecting billions of things? If building and managing highly distributed systems, with high-scalability requirements and difficult synchronization problems interest you, we have the right challenge for you! AWS IoT Foundational Services is a place you can develop your career while making a direct impact for customers at scale. Come join the AWS Internet of Things (IoT Foundational Services) team!

This role is in the AWS IoT Foundational Services Infrastructure team, supporting IoT Core and other IoT service teams. The Infrastructure team is a force multiplier and accelerator of IoT service teams by solving common problems with automation, developing novel deployment tech, supporting service teams by owning infrastructure management, driving infrastructure improvements and optimizations, and championing operational excellence across IoT Foundational Services.

Key job responsibilities
We are looking for people that are self-driven, able to deal with ambiguity, passionate about innovating, working on challenging highly scalable distributed systems problems, and motivated to learn about a broad set of technologies.

You will be working daily with your team members,
across multiple service teams and other technical leaders to advance infrastructure of IoT services. You'll have opportunities to define technical strategy, solve difficult technical problems, design and develop large system solutions, and to lead projects to improve IoT infrastructure and operational excellence in the org.

As Systems Developer you will:
- Build services and automation to efficiently operate, manage, and scale our growing fleet and customer base.
- Be proactive in solving the problems and looking for ways to improve our services and org infrastructure.
- Continuously develop systems and automation to improve the availability and reliability of AWS IoT Core services and supporting systems.
- Design and build systems and automation to reach performance and scalability goals of AWS IoT Core.
- Work with all forms of technical and non-technical peers to build, deliver, and manage the infrastructure and services across all of AWS IoT.

A successful candidate will be well-versed in software development practices, have experience with managing and operating large production environments, and a knack for automation and scale. Come and help us grow AWS IoT and built the future of the connected world!

About the team
Amazons Internet of Things platform (AWS IoT) enables customers to easily and securely connect devices to the AWS cloud using industry standard protocols in a fully managed environment.
IoT Foundational Services offer key capabilities to manages the connection with devices, process and route those messages to AWS endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely, and enable customers to view, command, control their devices. IoT Foundational Services Infrastructure team builds and manages required infrastructure assets and tech to power IoT Foundational services.

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- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
- 1+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby

- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience utilizing AWS cloud solutions in a DevOps environment

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $116,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.