CareerPlan

System Development Engineer II, Amazon Foundational Security Services

Seattle, Washington, United StatesFull-time$129k–$175k2026-10-27 → 2026-11-09

Core

Design and deliver technology solutions to improve the resiliency, performance, and cost-effectiveness of large-scale infrastructure systems.

Role type

Senior IC system development engineer (infrastructure)

Builds

Resilient, scalable systems and automation tooling for Amazon's foundational security services

Domain

Cloud infrastructure / DevOps / Security

Required skills

Large-scale infrastructure automation, modern programming (Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust), CI/CD pipelines, Agile methodology, root cause analysis, system monitoring, code reviews, documentation

Preferred skills

Distributed systems at scale, AWS product development

Technologies

AWS, Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust

Responsibilities

Design and deliver technology solutions balancing constraints and choosing appropriate technology; Identify and resolve ambiguous problems and architectural deficiencies; Develop and maintain automation, metrics, and monitoring; Participate in code reviews, operational readiness reviews, and post-incident analyses; Write clear documentation and runbooks

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC