System Dev Engineer, Systems Dev Engineer – USA, WA, Seattle

Amazon

  • Full Time

DESCRIPTION

Within Amazon’s Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis team (FP&A), we enjoy a unique vantage point into everything happening within Amazon. As part of that, this role would be part of a team that is responsible for Company’s enterprise-wide financial planning & analytics environment.
– Are you excited about working directly to empower users?
– Love to get your hands dirty and solve challenging technical issues?
This opportunity is a great fit for someone with system development skills who is eager for an opportunity to gain skills in other aspects of building & maintaining an enterprise-scale data & analytics software system.
The data flowing through our platform directly contributes to decision-making by our CFO and all levels of finance leadership. If you’re passionate about building tools that enhance productivity, improve financial accuracy, reduce waste, and improve work-life harmony for a large and rapidly growing finance user base, come join us!
As a team member, you’ll have the opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a global scale, while touching and influencing large parts of the underlying AWS services. You’ll be involved in the design and development of products that provide fully featured Finance infrastructures on demand.
You’ll focus on operational excellence by implementing and integrating DevOps key methodologies, such as infrastructure as code and configuration management, and tools into the product architecture as capabilities for building Finance infrastructures. You’ll improve and apply such practices and tools to help to innovate faster through automating and streamlining the software development and infrastructure management processes. You will become intimate with the architecture of our systems and will drive prioritization of operational issues.
This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically one week every two months. We work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant and alarms won’t wake us up in the middle of the night. When this happens, we take action to ensure we will not get paged again for the same issue.
The team is dedicated to supporting new team members, you will grow in the team through one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews.
Over the years, we have developed a strong sense of team trust and we are looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, motivated, and reliable.

Typical tasks and responsibilities
· Administer & monitor multiple AWS Accounts.
· Solve both tactical and strategic problems simultaneously
· Resolve Problem Management and Resolution tickets
· Ensure environment security follows best practices
· AWS Administration and maintenance experience
· Act as the technical leader for application support and enhancement issues · Plan and schedule AWS administration projects; provide technical vision and leadership
· Monitor AWS Services and integration with other applications. Also to provide usage and performance metrics
· Perform some production support duties during off-hours, on rotation.

Key job responsibilities
Typical tasks and responsibilities
· Administer & monitor multiple AWS Accounts.
· Solve both tactical and strategic problems simultaneously
· Resolve Problem Management and Resolution tickets
· Ensure environment security follows best practices
· Build tools, standards, and automation to scale the development team.
· Act as the technical leader for application support and enhancement AWS issues and provide technical vision and leadership
· Monitor AWS Services and integration with other applications. Also to provide usage and performance metrics
· Perform some production support duties during off-hours, on rotation.
Solid AWS services experience (EC2, VPC, EBs, ASG, S3, Cloudwatch, Load Balancer, Lambda)
Continuous development and testing techniques along with documentation

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 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 build processes

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– Experience with distributed systems at scale

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $116,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

 

USA, WA, Seattle