Systems Development Engineer, Pyxis ADC

Summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Systems Development Engineer I to own and advance mission‑critical services in our Amazon Dedicated Clouds (ADC). You will work as part of the Amazon Software Builder Experience (ASBX) Pyxis ADC team, ensuring foundational services like Apollo, Pipelines, Test on Demand/Hydra, App Config, and Multi‑Region maintain parity, reliability, and security across all isolated partitions.

• Design and deliver technology solutions to solve difficult business problems, improving resilience, performance, and operational efficiency of our systems.
• Work autonomously on components, applications, and technology solutions that enhance a major portion of our products or applications.
• Help solve ambiguous problems, architectural deficiencies, or areas where our systems hinder the innovation of other teams.
• Participate in design, scoping, and prioritization discussions, making technical trade‑offs and calculating costs of proposed solutions.
• Participate in reviews of architecture, design, operations, and post‑incident analysis for your team.
• Troubleshoot difficult problems, researching root causes and thoroughly resolving defects.
• Participate in an on‑call rotation to support mission‑critical services.

On a typical day, engineers dive deep to find the root cause of a customer issue, investigate metric trends, and discuss radical new approaches to automate operational processes. The team focuses on troubleshooting, operations support, and automation innovations.

• Associate's degree or above, or CND (Certified Network Defender) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials)
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, Power Shell, Ruby
• Experience tools for automation (building, testing, releasing or monitoring)
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph, and a willingness to opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which AWS work is performed

• Knowledge of and proficiency in the use of Python scripting language
• Experience on highly concurrent, high throughput systems and knowledge of complex distributed systems

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.