Amazon
Senior System Development Engineer - AWS Networking System Test, Release Engineering and System Test
$174K–$235K
Raleigh, NC +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- Raleigh, NC
Cupertino, CA - Experience
- 8+ years of non-internship professional software development experience; 8+ years of programming experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Build and operate scalable automated system-test infrastructure that qualifies AWS networking platforms and releases before production.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain automated qualification systems and run them in CI and nightly regression pipelines.
- Integrate testing with lab infrastructure and orchestration; improve reliability, coverage, and qualification speed.
- Debug cross-layer failures, collaborate across software, hardware, and networking teams, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems, and hands-on systems engineering.
- Experience building tools for building, testing, releasing, or monitoring; experience with Linux/Unix.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- 8+ years of non-internship professional software development experience and 8+ years programming in at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby.
Nice to have
- Experience with distributed systems at scale and Layer 2/3 networking protocols.
- Experience qualifying networking hardware platforms; familiarity with network test tools and traffic generators (e.g., IXIA/Spirent).
Pay
173,900.00 - 235,200.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Linux/Unix, C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
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