System Development Engineer II, Prime Air

Amazon • Seattle, WA

5d

About The Position

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our
culture of diversity and inclusion of our teams within the organization.

We’re working on the future. If you are seeking an iterative fast-paced
environment where you can drive innovation, apply state-of-the-art technologies
to solve real world delivery challenges, and provide visible benefit to
customers, this is your opportunity.

Come work on the Amazon Prime Air team!

Prime Air is seeking an experienced System Development Engineer (SysDE) to guide
the development of new features and infrastructure for our drone software
simulator. As a SysDE on our team, you will design, build, and operate services
and infrastructure that Prime Air engineering teams use every day to develop,
test, and release software.

This person must be comfortable working with a team of top-notch engineers and
scientists. We’re looking for people who innovate and love solving hard
problems. You will work hard, have fun, and of course, make history!

Requirements

• Experience with Linux/Unix
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, TypeScript, Ruby

Nice To Haves

• Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience building services using AWS products
• Experience with distributed systems at scale
• Experience building tools for building, testing, releasing or monitoring

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable AWS-based services and infrastructure that support software development and testing across Prime Air
• Develop and improve simulation orchestration and workflow systems used by engineering teams across the organization
• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment tooling
• Develop and maintain tooling that supports verification, certification, and simulation-based testing campaigns
• Work closely with engineers across Prime Air who use software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop simulation to develop, test, and certify drone software
• Participate in on-call rotations and use operational metrics to drive service reliability and continuous improvement
• Participate in design and architecture reviews for new services and simulation platform features
• Influence the team's technical strategy by identifying opportunities to improve reliability, customer experience, and operational efficiency

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed