Amazon
Posted 150 days agoVerified live 11h ago
System Development Engineer II, Platform Engineering and Emerging Technologies
Brief overview
Arlington, Virginia, USAIn-person
UndergradOr in progress
$129k–$175k/yrStated range
2+ yrsMinimum
17,535 H-1B approvalsDept. of Labor
9,838 green cardsCertified filings
Clearance requiredU.S. government
Designing and deploying resilient infrastructureMonitoring and automation of systemsWorking with distributed systems at scaleLinux/Unix system experience
About the company
Amazonamazon.com
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Visa sponsorship history
4 years sponsoring, last filed FY2026H-1B dependent
Data powered by U.S. Department of Labor. This does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.17,535H-1B approved
95%approval rate
4,213new H-1B hires
9,838PERM certified
$194,500median wage / yr
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20254,327
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Green Card (PERM) FilingsCertified green card filings: a long-term commitment to international hires.
20236,267
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Job description
Summary
Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a System Development Engineer to support AWS Cryptography and PKI Services. The role involves designing, deploying, monitoring, and automating infrastructure, tools, and systems to provide a resilient platform for customers' workloads.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, monitor, and automate infrastructure, tools and systems to provide a highly-available and resilient platform for our customers' and our team's workloads
- This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week in every six. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice
Skills
- 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
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret with SCI eligibility or above
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- Experience with Linux/Unix
Qualifications
Must Haves
- 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
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret with SCI eligibility or above
Nice to Haves
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- Experience with Linux/Unix
Benefits
- 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
- Parental leave
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