System Development Engineer, Elastic Disaster Recovery, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

Role Summary

We are looking for a Systems Development Engineer to build the automation, tooling, and operational infrastructure that keeps this large‑scale mission‑critical service reliable, secure, and efficient. In this role you will treat operations as a software problem—eliminating manual toil, hardening deployment and monitoring systems, and ensuring our replication and recovery fleet runs flawlessly across a broad and heterogeneous environment. A key dimension of this role is breadth: DRS supports a wide range of operating systems (multiple Linux distributions and Windows versions) and both x86/64 and ARM
64 (Graviton) architectures, so your automation and tooling must be robust across diverse OS and hardware combinations.

• Operational automation:
  Design and build software that automates infrastructure provisioning, deployments, and recurring operational workflows, reducing manual effort and on‑call burden across the DRS fleet.
• CI/CD and deployment safety:
  Build and improve pipelines, deployment guardrails, and rollback mechanisms to ship changes safely across all regions and platform variants.
• Cross‑platform support:
  Develop and maintain tooling that works reliably across a wide range of operating systems (various Linux distributions and Windows) and both x86/64 and ARM
  64 (Graviton) architectures.
• Monitoring and resilience:
  Implement monitoring, alarming, and self‑healing systems to detect and remediate issues before they impact customers’ replication and recovery operations.
• Scaling and performance:
  Tune and scale the systems behind continuous replication, capacity management, and recovery orchestration to handle growth gracefully.
• Operational excellence:
  Drive down ticket and incident volume through durable, programmatic fixes; lead root‑cause analysis and contribute to runbooks and operational best practices.
• Security and compliance:
  Partner with security teams to harden the service and remediate findings, ensuring fixes are deployed consistently across the fleet.
• Cross‑team leverage:
  Build automation and tooling that serves multiple teams and raises the operational bar across DRS.

• Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting 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 and build processes.

• Experience with distributed systems at scale.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is a disaster recovery service provided by AWS that enables organizations to minimize downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on‑premises and cloud‑based applications. DRS uses cost‑effective AWS resources to maintain an up‑to‑date copy of source servers on AWS, allowing point‑in‑time recovery and failback to the primary site after an issue is resolved.

Salary range: $ – $ 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 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.

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