Amazon
Systems Development Engineer II, AWS Cross Domain Services (CDS)
$129K–$175K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Aug 5, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years designing or architecting systems; 4+ years in listed operations disciplines. Preferred: 6+ years in those disciplines.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph; must opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which performing AWS work.
About the job
Operate, automate, troubleshoot, and improve infrastructure services that move data between AWS regions with differing security requirements.
What you'll do
- Develop infrastructure foundational services and tools for deployment and release automation; build and maintain test fleets.
- Perform functional, regression, and stress testing; monitor production software and investigate operational issues.
- Improve service availability and operational excellence by operating, scaling, and troubleshooting complex systems.
What they ask for
- 2+ years designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- 4+ years in SRE, systems engineering, systems administration, DevOps, security administration, or network administration.
- Experience with Linux and networking protocols, or software development with programming/scripting experience.
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph; must be a US Citizen and maintain the clearance.
Nice to have
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust.
- Experience developing and delivering security software tools; experience with server, storage, networking, or large-scale distributed systems.
Pay
129,200.00 - 174,800.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Linux, Networking protocols, Batch, VB, PowerShell, Java, C#, Chef
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