System Development Engineer II, AWS, Network Alerts

- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- Experience with PowerShell (preferred), Python, Ruby, or Java
- Experience working in a high pace DevOps
- Experience working in an Agile environment

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The Network Alerts team in AWS is looking for System Development Engineers to help building systems that monitor the AWS network, one of the world’s largest and most complex network. Tens of millions of customers rely on this network for using our retail websites, accessing content on their Kindles and building applications and businesses on top of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our success depends on our world-class network infrastructure, and keeping a reliable, fault tolerant network by diagnosing impairments depends on the Network Alerts team.

We have an amazing opportunity for you to join a world-class software development team in a dynamic environment that has the feel of a start-up. As a System Development Engineer you will help to deploy, manage, fix and optimize the tools, services and components that our engineering teams rely on to automate our network and keep it operational. Your internal customers are your network engineer and operator colleagues, and through close collaboration, support and exchange of ideas, we share a common goal to serve our external customers and grow through learning and innovation.
If you are exceptionally motivated and passionate about the work you do then we welcome you to join us, working in an Agile environment with the most advanced tools, processes and talented people in the industry to make the Cloud a reality.

What you’ll be working on:
- Simplifying and optimizing systems, processes, and tools to make things better for our customers
- Managing and growing innovative, production-quality tools to solve real operational problems for our network
- Investigating technical issues scientifically and thoroughly, and assist in fixing them so they don't come back
- Providing technical solutions to real business problems in a global organization

Top reasons to join our team:
- Be a catalyst to deliver network observability products that are growing rapidly
- Define, build, own, and run multiple services in an enormous scale environment
- Build and influence the tools, utilities and pipelines that are part of the AWS fleet running all the internal systems
- Learning from industry recognized Amazon senior, principal & distinguished engineers

Key job responsibilities:
A SysDE is responsible for maintaining their teams’ services, requiring them to troubleshoot and identify the root causes of any issues that arise within their systems and any subcomponents. A SysDE will utilise testing, monitoring, and validations on their services, tools, and infrastructure to ensure their teams can continuously deploy new versions of the services with minimal interruption. A SysDE will identify areas to optimize, refine, and develop automation and tools to reduce manual operations and fulfil the requirements of the business and their customers. A SysDE will continuously take part in proposing infrastructural architecture improvements and develop capabilities to make those happen.

About the team:
AWS Network Alerts owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of the core monitoring and detection engines for AWS Network. We work on the most challenging problems, with huge amount of data, thousands of variables impacting the AWS network and we’re looking for talented people who want to join this journey.
You’ll join a diverse team of software, system and data engineers, scientists, technical program managers, software managers and other vital roles.

Internal job description

Loop competencies
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Basic qualifications
- Knowledge of computer and system engineering fundamentals (computer architecture, networking, storage and operating systems).
- 5+ years of experience (non-internship) in professional development.
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, fault tolerance and scaling) of new and existing systems.
- Experience in hands-on ops processes, systems engineering, tool development and maintaining large scale systems in bare-metal servers.
- Experience of extensive programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Golang and Rust.

Preferred qualifications:
- Strong experience of working on building softwares following SDLC
- Strong experience of infrastructure design, infra as code, writing and managing pipelines, and automation.
- Strong experience with Python, Java or Golang.
- Experience of managing distributed stateful softwares in a fleet of bare-metal servers, with solid networking and SLAs.
- Experience of working in a team following Scrum/Kanban.

Key job responsibilities
A SysDE is responsible for maintaining their teams’ services, requiring them to troubleshoot and identify the root causes of any issues that arise within their systems and any subcomponents. A SysDE will utilise testing, monitoring, and validations on their services, tools, and infrastructure to ensure their teams can continuously deploy new versions of the services with minimal interruption. A SysDE will identify areas to optimize, refine, and develop automation and tools to reduce manual operations and fulfil the requirements of the business and their customers. A SysDE will continuously take part in proposing infrastructural architecture improvements and develop capabilities to make those happen.

About the team
AWS Network Alerts owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of the core monitoring and detection engines for AWS Network. We work on the most challenging problems, with huge amount of data, thousands of variables impacting the AWS network and we’re looking for talented people who want to join this journey.
You’ll join a diverse team of software, system and data engineers, scientists, technical program managers, software managers and other vital roles.