System Development Engineer, Elastic Disaster Recovery, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

We are looking for a Systems Development Engineer to build the automation, tooling, and operational infrastructure that keep this large-scale, mission-critical service reliable, secure, and efficient. In this role you will treat operations as a software problem — eliminating manual toil, hardening our deployment and monitoring systems, and ensuring our replication and recovery fleet runs flawlessly across a broad and heterogeneous environment. A key dimension of this role is breadth: DRS supports a wide range of operating systems (multiple Linux distributions and Windows versions) and both x86/64 and ARM64 (Graviton) architectures, so your automation and tooling must be robust across diverse OS and hardware combinations.

Key job responsibilities
* Operational automation: Design and build software that automates infrastructure provisioning, deployments, and recurring operational workflows, reducing manual effort and on-call burden across the DRS fleet.
* CI/CD and deployment safety: Build and improve pipelines, deployment guardrails, and rollback mechanisms to ship changes safely across all regions and platform variants.
* Cross-platform support: Develop and maintain tooling that works reliably across a wide range of operating systems (various Linux distributions and Windows) and both x86/64 and ARM64 (Graviton) architectures.
* Monitoring and resilience: Implement monitoring, alarming, and self-healing systems to detect and remediate issues before they impact customers' replication and recovery operations.
* Scaling and performance: Tune and scale the systems behind continuous replication, capacity management, and recovery orchestration to handle growth gracefully.
* Operational excellence: Drive down ticket and incident volume through durable, programmatic fixes; lead root-cause analysis and contribute to runbooks and operational best practices.
* Security and compliance: Partner with security teams to harden the service and remediate findings, ensuring fixes are deployed consistently across the fleet.
* Cross-team leverage: Build automation and tooling that serves multiple teams and raises the operational bar across DRS.

About the team
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is a disaster recovery service provided by AWS that enables organizations to minimize downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications. DRS uses cost-effective AWS resources to maintain an up-to-date copy of source servers on AWS, allowing for point-in-time recovery and failback to the primary site after an issue is resolved.

Basic Qualifications

- 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

Preferred Qualifications

- 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.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, SANTA CLARA - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually
USA, MA, Boston - 129,200.00 - 174,800.00 USD annually