System Development Engineer,, DSP Analytics

Are you interested in building high-performance, globally scalable systems that support Amazon's current and future growth? Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? Does the prospect of working with top engineering talent get you charged up?

Looking for a highly motivated System Development Engineer to help build Amazon's business critical delivery systems and build solutions to operate at scale. You will work on critical business functions for our customers around the world while meeting system availability goals and ensuring system performance with growing business needs. You will discover innovative ways to automate and scale our infrastructure as we expand globally. You will work together with multiple teams and departments, with plenty of opportunities to learn and grow.

The ideal candidate has a passion for understanding computing systems and for applying that understanding with an obsession for delighting customers. In this role, you will apply your skills of system design, networking, coding/scripting languages, as well as technical communication and project organization to make your impact on improving our business processes. The candidate is expected to contribute work critical initiatives, build products, lead engineers to troubleshoot, debug, evaluate and resolve computer-identified alarms, make feature enhancements, systems management, perform software deployments and migrations, host management and automate the operational tasks.

They would also be responsible to develop tools and end to end automation to achieve human free operations.

As an Engineer in the team, you will take part in in the architecture, design, implementation and deployment of large-scale and complex software systems. You will get to leverage your experience and expertise to deliver innovative solutions to challenging problems. You will communicate your ideas effectively to achieve the right outcome for your team and customer. You enjoy collaborating with others to increase the effectiveness of the overall team. Your code, design, and implementation decisions should set a great example to other engineers. You will also have the opportunity to impact the technical decisions in the broader organization as well as mentor other engineers in the team.

Key job responsibilities

Design, implement, maintain, and deploy components that solve problems in a complex ecosystem. We work in lots of different languages (not limited to, but most often Python and Java). It is more important to us that you understand coding in the context of working in distributed systems and/or widely scaled web applications.

A day in the life

You will lead the technical direction for complex migration challenges using AWS technologies and modern development practices. You might collaborate on pipeline infrastructure setups, build AI-assisted workflows that streamline migration operations, or develop tools in Python and Java to automate critical migration tasks. You'll work closely with service teams across Amazon to identify and resolve migration obstacles, analyze memory efficiency across service fleets. Your work will span infrastructure setup, data replication, traffic management, and post-migration validation, all while supporting operational excellence through monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement. You'll also mentor team members, participate in design reviews, and collaborate with Seattle-based leadership on strategic priorities.

About the team

We are the Amazon DSP Analytics team, supporting all business pillars across the DSP organization horizontally, with the vision to enable data-, insights-, and science-driven decision-making. We are an exceptionally talented and fun-loving team. Here, you'll have the opportunity to dive deep into complex business and data problems, drive large-scale technical solutions, and raise the bar for operational excellence. We love sharing ideas and learning from each other, and we believe in using those ideas to disrupt the status quo.

Basic qualifications

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