Job Summary
The Network Alerts team in AWS is seeking System Development Engineers to help build systems that monitor the AWS network, one of the world's largest and most complex networks. This network serves tens of millions of customers who use our retail websites, access content on their Kindles, and build applications and businesses on top of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our success depends on our world-class network infrastructure, and maintaining a reliable, fault-tolerant network by diagnosing impairments depends on the Network Alerts team.
We are looking for an exceptional individual to join a world-class software development team in a dynamic environment with a startup feel. As a System Development Engineer, you will help 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.
What You'll Be Working On:
- Simplifying and optimizing systems, processes, and tools to improve customer experiences
- Managing and growing innovative, production-quality tools to solve real operational problems for our network
- Investigating technical issues scientifically and thoroughly, and assisting in fixing them so they don't recur
- Providing technical solutions to real business problems in a global organization
Why Join Our Team?
- Be a catalyst for delivering network observability products that are rapidly growing
- Define, build, own, and run multiple services in a massive scale environment
- Build and influence the tools, utilities, and pipelines that are part of the AWS fleet running all the internal systems
- Learn from industry-recognized Amazon senior, principal, and distinguished engineers
Key Job Responsibilities:
A SysDE is responsible for maintaining their team's services, requiring them to troubleshoot and identify the root causes of any issues that arise within their systems and subcomponents. A SysDE will utilize testing, monitoring, and validation on their services, tools, and infrastructure to ensure their teams can continuously deploy new versions of the services with minimal disruption. A SysDE will identify areas to optimize, refine, and develop automation and tools to reduce manual operations and meet the requirements of the business and customers. A SysDE will continuously participate 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 challenging problems with huge amounts of data and thousands of variables impacting the AWS network. We're looking for talented individuals 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.