System Development Engineer II, Network Device Lifecycle Management

Amazon Robotics is looking for an experienced System Development Engineer to join our Imperium Network Device Lifecycle Management team in Austin. In this role you will be solving challenging problems and developing scalable, high-performing solutions that require minimal long term sustaining and development. Our team is accountable for software managing the lifecycle of network devices in global fulfillment centers; our systems span over 100,000 Amazonians and hundreds of thousands of IP enabled devices.

In this role, you will partner with peer Software, System and Network Engineers globally to develop simple and efficient technology that enables Amazon’s fulfillment network. You will work with a wide variety of technologies and projects that range from third party enterprise solutions to open source and proprietary inventions. Technicians and Engineers worldwide will look to you for mentorship, guidance and solutions to complex business problems that are truly unique to Amazon. We value performance, simplicity, and scalability in our designs. In your day-to-day work you will focus on automation of complex tasks to allow our business to scale with customer demand, and let your fellow network engineers to focus on complex problems rather than mundane tasks.

Key job responsibilities

As a System Development Engineer at Amazon, you will take your technical experience to create new and enhance existing frameworks for managing network devices' lifecycle at Amazon fulfillment centers, such as new device provisioning or software updates. These critical frameworks will make it faster and easier for customers to manage these network devices at scale. If you have a passion for network management applications, and making generic toolkits, this is an ideal position for you. This role will allow you to push the boundaries by thinking big of what customers can do by driving efficient and scalable solutions. You will be challenged to create OS agnostic services and tools, while also optimizing for performance and ease of use by customers.

Ideal candidates will use their experience to clearly communicate and translate requirements into elegant solutions. You will work in a reactive, flexible and partnering peer environment.

A day in the life

You will be a part of an agile development team following innovative best practices in software development where you will work on technical designs, architecture and coding. To build our applications, you will interact with network engineering teams to gather requirements, provide technical solutions and develop the software that are required in defining our next generation products.

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that assist you and eligible family members, including domestic partners. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options

3. Paid Time Off (PTO)

4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

About the team

Our team exists to enable network engineers to self-serve manage the lifecycle of network devices running in all fulfillment centers. We are accountable for delivering application frameworks and foundational pieces that are critical for device management and we do so by showing the utmost customer obsession. As a part of Network Device Lifecycle Management team, you’ll get to interact and work with multiple teams to develop an ecosystem end to end covering product conception to shipping on the vast number of Amazon devices in the field.

Basic qualifications

- 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust

- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

Preferred qualifications

- Experience building services using AWS products

- Experience with distributed systems at scale

- Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, TX, Austin - 129,200.00 - 174,800.00 USD annually