Amazon
Sr. System Development Engineer, AWS Mainstream Compute
$151K–$235K
Austin, TX +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 3, 2026
- Location
- Austin, TX
Seattle, WA
Cupertino, CA - Experience
- Requirements specify 4+ years in software development, Linux/Unix operations, and systems development; 3+ years programming; and 2+ years in system design/architecture and related development and operations. No alternatives stated.
About the job
Leads the design, development, testing, launch, and operation of server hardware solutions for AWS, focusing on reliability, testability, diagnosis, performance, and cost.
What you'll do
- Lead server product design and development with engineering and manufacturing partners, translating customer needs into solutions deployed at scale.
- Decompose complex server testing, reliability, and diagnosis problems and lead delivery of solutions across hardware, software, and operations teams.
- Oversee deployed server fleets, monitoring quality and customer requirements while driving improvements.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 4+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment and 4+ years of systems development in an IT or data center environment.
- 3+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby.
- 2+ years of designing or architecting systems and 2+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement; experience leading production software solutions.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Bash/Perl) experience.
- Experience debugging, integrating, and validating Cloud Computing servers.
Pay
173,900.00 - 235,200.00 USD annually (base salary); 151,200.00 - 204,600.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Linux/Unix, C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
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