Senior Systems Development Engineer, Amazon

• Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
• Experience with Linux/Unix
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

Desirable

• We are looking for a skilled engineer to design and build self-service tools that help software development teams publish code, at speed
• Our tools support multiple workflows, plugin to various services across Amazon and scale as workloads increase
• Our team owns feature development, performance, scalability and excellence on all our tools
• You will work directly with our customers to make sure that changes and feature requests are balanced with performance and stability
• It is a challenge to work withthousands of developers who rely on these tools and is also a great opportunity for engineers who are looking to push themselves and prove that they can achieve great things
• Our tools are critical to developer productivity, which means architecting a scalable, fault-tolerant system is essential
• You will engage with experienced, cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative solutions
• You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative environment
• You will take part in designing solutions to hard problems across a global platform
• You will work closely with multiple DevOps teams to drive the SDLC from concept to launch and ensuring the highest level of for your deliverables
• As a senior member of the team, you’ll be leading the architecture and optimization of our Yocto based build system and infrastructure that powers the build systems used for more than a dozen product lines
• You’ll work directly with customers across the organization, propose and implement self-service tools to enable software development teams to publish code at scale and speed
• The solutions you develop will power one of the largest build fleets at Amazon and will impact the productivity of hundreds of developers
• The work you do will be at the forefront of new product initiatives and development, and will enable the next generation of Amazon devices
• The tools and features you will develop, being critical to developer productivity, will be fault tolerant as well as designed for scale
• We are a team of experienced engineers in the Device OS org who own the build and release infrastructure, as well as developer experience self-service tools, that cater to the rest of our OS and Application developer community
• Our engineers have backgrounds that range from SCM and DevOps to expertise in AWS technology stacks, Yocto, Build Toolchains and productivity tools
• The OS and application developers are our customers and our roadmap is driven by the desire to improve their development experience
• While you’ll primarily own areas around Yocto and build toolchain, our team members often collaborate extensively
• You’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn and contribute in other functional areas owned by the team
• The impact from your work will be very tangible and fulfilling as we serve a large developer community
• Responsible for the development and maintenance of key features
• Will work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility
• Driving your own projects, from design through planning to execution. Also work with teams across Amazon on cross-team initiatives
• Planning and coordinating feature improvements and upgrades around services
• Improving the user experience around services
• Analyzing and improving availability, efficiency, capacity, scalability, security and performance of our services
• Representing Systems while working with internal teams and external partners
• Troubleshooting and resolving problems with production systems as part of our on-call rotation
• Developing and maintaining tools