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You'll build systems where mistakes affect real customers.\nKey job responsibilities\n- Design and implement services for device provisioning, configuration management, and operational automation\n- Build systems that operate reliably across diverse network topologies and hardware configurations\n- Debug complex issues spanning multiple services, often with limited visibility into customer environments\n- Drive operational excellence: alarms, runbooks, dashboards, and COE processes\n- Collaborate with hardware, networking, and platform teams to deliver end-to-end solutions\n- Mentor engineers and provide substantive code review feedback\nA day in the life\nMorning: check dashboards, investigate why a firmware deployment stalled overnight. Use AI coding assistants to quickly prototype a fix \nand generate test cases.\nMid-day: code reviews, standup, design review for automated rack evacuation. Ask hard questions about failure modes.\nAfternoon: ship your fix, monitor the deployment. A field ticket comes in-debug across service boundaries, coordinate with the field team.Use AI tools to analyze logs and draft the follow-up ticket.\nAbout the team\nSite Services builds the software that provisions, configures, and operates AWS Outposts at customer sites worldwide. Our systems manage \ndevice lifecycle, network configuration, firmware updates, and operational health for thousands of racks in environments we don't fully \ncontrol.\nWe're an AI-forward team. We use AI tools daily to accelerate development, debug complex issues, and automate operational toil. We expect \nengineers to leverage these tools effectively and help us discover new ways to multiply our impact.\nBasic qualifications\n- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience\n- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience\n- Experience programming with at least one software programming language\nPreferred qualifications\n- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience\n- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent\nAmazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.\nOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. 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