Systems Development Engineer II, AWS Cross Domain Services; CDS

Job :  | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

The AWS Cross Domain Services team is seeking a Systems Development Engineer who is passionate about operational excellence. This engineer will help to operate and scale the services that connect AWS regions of differing security requirements. An Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) is a collection of AWS regions provided for a customer with specific security requirements. The AWS Cross Domain Services team provides solutions for customers to move data between regions with differing security requirements.

We are obsessed with earning and maintaining customer trust. AWS is building some of the largest and most complex distributed systems in the world and the AWS Cross Domain Services team is essential to AWS’s dedicated cloud expansion. We need talented, adaptable engineers to help us implement and operate these complex systems.

• Have the opportunity to leverage the latest cloud computing technologies.
• Improve the availability of cross domain services to better serve U.S. Government agencies.
• Use your strong background in Linux, networking, and cloud services to raise our already high operational excellence bar.
• Operate, automate, and troubleshoot complex systems in partnership with software developer peers.
• Be given opportunities to grow your automation skills and gain a deeper understanding of cloud computing design patterns.

• Shape the development of infrastructure foundational services, write tools and services to improve automation for deployment and releases, build and maintain test fleets, perform functional and regression testing on software, define and perform stress testing, and monitor production software.
• Build on existing services and architectures and create new automated solutions.

This position requires that the candidate selected must be a US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

• 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• 4+ years of site reliability engineering (SRE), systems engineering, systems administration, Dev Ops, security administration, or network administration experience.
• Experience in Linux and networking protocols, or experience in software development and experience with programming/scripting (Batch, VB, Power Shell, Java, C#, Chef, Perl, Ruby and/or PHP).
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS / SCI or above.

• Experience utilizing AWS cloud solutions in a Dev Ops environment.
• Experience developing and delivering security software tools.
• Experience with server, storage, networking, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS / SCI with Polygraph.

The base salary range for this position is USD  –  annually. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription), Basic Life & AD&D insurance, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

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Posted: June 4, 2026 (Updated 3 days ago)