Systems Development Engineer II, Amazon Security

Build the automation and infrastructure that keeps every Amazon and AWS site on Earth physically secure.

Amazon Optics develops and operates the critical services that Corporate and AWS data center employees rely on to protect our physical sites and preserve the trust our customers place in us. As a Systems Development Engineer II you sit at the intersection of software and infrastructure: you build the deployment pipelines fleet automation monitoring and operational tooling that let a small team run a global safety-critical access control system with minimal manual toil. When cant be done isnt an accepted answer you find the extensible scalable path and simplify along the way.

Youll design systems that require minimal long-term maintenance automate manual processes and create tools that scale across Amazons physical-access infrastructure spanning AWS data centers corporate offices and Leo facilities worldwide. You own your solutions end-to-end: testable maintainable and efficient with sound architectural and technical trade-off decisions.

Key job responsibilities
Design build and operate automation tooling and CI/CD pipelines that deploy Optics access control services safely across every AWS region.

Own the operational excellence of production systems: define monitoring alarming and runbooks; drive down manual toil and mean-time-to-recovery.

Lead technical design for medium-to-large infrastructure initiatives balancing complexity scalability security and delivery speed.

Develop Infrastructure as Code (e.g. AWS CDK/CloudFormation) to provision and manage services and their supporting resources.

Diagnose and resolve complex issues across the stack from service code to underlying infrastructure and device connectivity.

Improve deployment safety and release velocity through automated testing bake/rollback gating and reduction of change-related risk.

Partner with software engineers security and operations teams to harden systems that must be highly available and secure by design.
Participate in an on-call rotation for the services you own and continuously reduce operational load through engineering.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security
At Amazon security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazons products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud devices retail entertainment healthcare operations and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security its in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas perspectives and voices.

Training & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing training and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve.

- Experience in automating deploying and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Golang Java C C# Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

- Experience with distributed systems at scale

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at VA Herndon - 129200.00 - 174800.00 USD annually