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Developers everywhere rely on Amazon Web Services for storage, compute, and virtualized services, and our success depends on world-class network and server infrastructure operating at massive scale with rapid integration of emerging technologies. We're looking for a System Development Engineer to develop automated test systems for the networking products that form the building blocks of Amazon's cloud infrastructure.\nAWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure - in other words, we keep the cloud running. We support every AWS data center and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that give our customers continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the hardest problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain, and we're looking for talented people who want to help solve them.\nYou'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, and operations managers. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to deliver the highest standards of safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers - all within an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.\nAs a System Development Engineer in Network Product Development, you'll have a unique opportunity to shape the development of our network - a fundamental contributor to the success of AWS that lets us scale existing services and launch new ones. The Release Engineering and System Test organization owns end-to-end, system-level qualification of platforms and OS, the final gate before software is released to production. In this role, you'll build autonomous test systems that qualify new platforms and releases at scale. This is a hands-on builder role at the intersection of software engineering, test infrastructure, and network systems. You'll develop production-quality automated test systems, integrate them with lab and orchestration services, and drive the reliability, efficiency, and operability of the qualification pipeline that every release depends on. You'll relentlessly improve the stability of the existing network by developing test automation for new hardware and software platforms, working closely with our Network Engineering teams to understand features and technical implementation and to build test suites that emulate real-world environments.\nThe ideal candidate has spent time in a similar role. Experience with industry-leading automation and CI/CD tools and with IXIA traffic generators (or similar) is a distinct advantage. You strive for simplicity and demonstrate significant creativity and high judgment. Your expertise is both deep and broad - you're hands-on, producing detailed technical work as well as high-level systems architecture.\nKey job responsibilities\nDesign, build, and maintain automated test systems that scale across platforms, network roles and operationalize system-level qualification suites in CI and nightly regression pipelines\nIntegrate test systems with lab infrastructure and orchestration services for device lifecycle management\nOwn the reliability and maintainability of your components - eliminate flakiness, drive down qualification runtimes, and continuously improve the reliability of the test systems\nShow creativity and initiative to improve system test coverage and effectiveness\nDebug complex, cross-layer failures spanning test infrastructure, software, hardware and drive root-cause analysis\nPartner with software, hardware and networking teams to simulate complex real world network designs\nRaise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring of junior engineers.\nAbout the team\nOur team is focused on building and maintaining the systems that enable Amazon to deliver reliably for customers at massive scale. We value collaboration, thoughtful engineering, and a commitment to making our systems more accessible and inclusive. As we look ahead, we are investing in automation, improved tooling, and innovative approaches that make it easier and safer for engineers to build and operate. If you are excited about solving meaningful technical problems and growing alongside a team that values your perspective, we would love to hear from you.\nBasic qualifications\n- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience\n- Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering\n- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field\n- 7+ years of experience in programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Golang\n- Knowledge of Layer 2/3 networking protocols, including hands-on experience with switches, routers\n- Experience with Linux/Unix\nPreferred qualifications\n- Experience with distributed systems at scale\n- Experience qualifying networking hardware platforms and managing cross-team release-qualification dependencies\n- Familiarity with network test tools, traffic generators (e.g., IXIA/Spirent)\nAmazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.\nLos Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.\nOur 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.\nThe 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. 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