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Amazon is looking for passionate and innovative System Development Engineers that have a heart for Nourishing People and the Planet. This team provides services to Whole Foods Market, tackling some of the most complex projects that will deliver innovative technical advancements for the retail grocery industry.
In this role, you will develop, deploy, and maintain reliable distributed solutions that operate at Amazon scale. You will balance operational excellence with innovation—enhancing existing infrastructure while building new features and services to meet evolving customer needs.
You will work with core technologies including Java, Python, AWS services, and SQL and NoSQL databases. Your responsibilities span the full software lifecycle: designing scalable architectures, writing production code, optimizing system performance, resolving technical debt, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
This team owns both the stability of current production systems and the development of solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software that delights customers while maintaining the reliability and performance standards Amazon is known for.
Key job responsibilities
• Design, develop, and deploy distributed systems that handle millions of requests per day
• Maintain and optimize existing production infrastructure to ensure 99.99% uptime
• Participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents
• Build features and services using Java, Python, and AWS technologies
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and operational tools to improve system observability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and deliver solutions
• Drive technical debt reduction initiatives and system modernization efforts
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team technical standards
About the team
Our team is responsible for maintaining and enhancing existing production systems while driving new development initiatives. We balance operational excellence with innovation, ensuring our current infrastructure runs reliably while building next-generation solutions to meet evolving customer needs.
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
- 5+ years of IT platform implementation in a technical and analytical role experience, or AWS Professional level certification
- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience with AWS services
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