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Job summary
Systems Development Engineers at Amazon is a unique role which organically emerged as the company evolved. Inspiration for the Systems Development Engineer came from Systems Engineers who “built” unique technology to solve business and customer problems.

Systems Development Engineers perform traditional Systems Engineering and writes or develops scripts, applications, or mechanisms to manage infrastructure. This role was created for the “builder” population of Systems Engineers who go beyond using basic tools and GUIs to implement infrastructure as code and even server-less systems.

Systems Development Engineers are expected to develop best practices, refine operational procedures and constantly innovate proactively. You will continuously identify areas of growth within the existing frameworks, tools and processes to develop further technical mechanisms to reduce waste and continuously improve. Our ideal candidate is autonomous, detail oriented, possesses strong written and verbal communication skills and has experience working at scale.

This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon’s world class technical teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere.

-Solving problems at scale excites you.
-You are interested in being part of a high-bar team with global responsibility for the Tier-1 services used across all of Amazon’s businesses.
-You do not implement specs from analysts and architects – you talk to customers and design solutions to their problems. You automate and innovate.
-You believe that the craft of software engineering is about writing code right the first time. For you, code reviews and automated testing are not chores – they are a core part of writing great software.
-You do not throw your code over the wall. You launch it, own it, support it and make it incrementally better for the benefit of customers.
-You enjoy working in a flexible, fast-paced, collaborative team environment.

Key job responsibilities
The Amazon Aurora team is searching for a System Development Engineer to develop efficient, scalable frameworks and automation tools for solving complex problems in space of Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD), Security Deployments, Integration Test Framework, Containerization etc. We’re looking for a System Development Engineer who’s self-driven, able to deal with ambiguity, passionate about giving customers the best possible experience and comes with strong systems engineering fundamentals.

About the team
Amazon Aurora makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Aurora for log analytics, application monitoring, full-text search, and more. Amazon Aurora is a fully managed service that delivers Aurora’s easy-to-use APIs and real-time capabilities along with offering predictable performance and seamless scalability for production workloads.

At AWS, you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, while leveraging the resources of Amazon.com (AMZN), one of the world’s leading internet companies. The Amazon Aurora Service team is part of the rapidly growing AWS Database and Analytics group. We are customer obsessed in a highly collaborative team-oriented environment.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

* Programming experience with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java
* Bachelors degree in Computer Science with 3+ years of experience in a Software Engineering, DevOps, or Systems Engineering capacity.
* Bash experience plus knowledge of at least one scripting language (Python, Ruby)
* Demonstrated UNIX (preferably Linux) systems engineering skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

* Experience using Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS, etc.)
* Experience building container solutions using Docker
* 1+ years of hands on work experience in Software Engineering, Dev Opps, and/or Systems Development
* Record of mentoring other engineers to maintain architectural vision and software quality.
* Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
* Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role