Amazon
Systems Development Engineer, Region Reliability
$129K–$175K
Arlington, VA · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development; 1+ years of systems design or architecture; 3+ years of systems administration and hands-on systems engineering.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional).
About the job
Builds automation and operational improvements to maintain the reliability, health, and readiness of Amazon Dedicated Cloud regions.
What you'll do
- Design and implement automation, scripts, and infrastructure-as-code to reduce operational toil and improve region reliability.
- Harden CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and alerting; diagnose cross-partition issues and create repeatable fixes.
- Contribute across the project lifecycle and communicate progress to stakeholders and operations teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional).
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 1+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience; 3+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience.
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals; programming experience in at least one modern language; current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph.
Nice to have
- Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology.
- Experience automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure.
Pay
129,200.00 - 174,800.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
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