Amazon
Systems Development Engineer, RSCI Collaborative Services
$129K–$175K
Jessup, MD +3 · Full-time · Posted Jun 18, 2026
- Location
- Jessup, MD
Seattle, WA
Bellevue, WA
Herndon, VA - Experience
- 2+ years of professional software development; 1+ years designing or architecting systems; 2+ years of administrative and hands-on systems engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional).
About the job
Builds and operates communication, authentication, and supporting infrastructure services across isolated AWS partitions for government customers.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain serverless/containerized systems, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and multi-region deployments.
- Automate operational processes and build monitoring, alarming, and observability tooling across air-gapped environments.
- Participate in reviews, coach teammates, and provide on-call support.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 1+ years of experience designing or architecting systems for reliability and scaling.
- 2+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems, and hands-on systems engineering.
- Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP; current, active US Government TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
Nice to have
- Experience programming in a modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, or Rust.
- Experience working in an Agile environment using Scrum.
Pay
129,200.00 - 174,800.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Linux, Python, PowerShell, Lambda, Elastic Container Service (ECS) Fargate, DynamoDB, Simple Queue Service (SQS), EventBridge
AI focus
Operate AI-powered incident notification services.
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