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Amazon Systems Development Engineer II, Email Mailbox and Security, Amazon in Arlington, Virginia
Description
At Amazon, we believe that every day is "Day One." A day for the first step or to meet a new challenge, and today could be the day that you become part of a bigger idea. Come join a group of creative people that help redefine the company daily. Working for Amazon is a new excitement every day.
In Enterprise Engineering, we build the software, services, and infrastructure that enable Amazon teams across the world to do their work on a daily basis. We represent the intersection of AWS technology and the need for traditional IT solutions at Amazon’s scale. We’re an AWS-focused, security obsessed, builder-centric organization, focused on using AWS technology to reshape and reinvent the traditional IT experience. We succeed when we make Amazonians around the world more effective in their work and more efficient in how they get it done.
You and your team will work with internal Amazon service owners and AWS product teams to develop new services and solutions that give enterprise IT customers, along with those supporting public sector customers, more choice and self-service platforms that we offer our global workforce. You will build new solutions that raise the bar for security, automation, and operational excellence.
We are looking for a motivated builder to inspire our teams and deliver results to our customers. This is a hands-on position where your daily activities will range from strategic planning to new system development to supporting the customers that depend on your services. You will deliver consistent, well-defined results in an agile systems development workflow. To succeed in this role, you will deliver on-time results that delight your customers while inspiring your team to think big about their work. If this sounds like a fit, we would love to speak with you.
Key job responsibilities
Partner with customers, stakeholders, third-party vendors, and service owners to deliver technical solutions for complex problems. This may be in the form of new software, systems, infrastructure, hardware, networking or automation improvements, or a refactoring of existing solutions.
Embrace the AWS ecosystem and drive innovation on top of it
Instill a culture that drives DevOps, holds a high-quality bar with code reviews, drives automation efforts to empower, and removes barriers for your team
Translation of complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design
Hands-on leadership for your team; working with others on the engineering team to guide the day-to-day operations, resolve incidents and feature requests, lead development activities, collaborate on architectural decisions, participate in security reviews, and carry-out deployments.
Build services that can scale across six continents for hundreds of thousands of Amazonians worldwide
Deliver quality features on-time and on-budget and execution against project plans and delivery commitments.
Maintain current technical knowledge of rapidly changing technology, always on the lookout for new technologies, and work with management and development teams to evolve current processes.
Due to federal contracts, this position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen
About the team
The Amazon Email Services (AmazES) team is an engineering team that sits within the AWS’s Enterprise Engineering organization. AmazES owns first-party and third-party services that help Amazonians communicate at an unprecedented scale.
Basic Qualifications
2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
Experience building services using AWS products
Experience managing Windows Server and Linux Server workloads
US Citizenship
Preferred Qualifications
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience with Microsoft Exchange and/or PostFix e-mail platforms
Experience with E-Mail Security platforms such as Mimecast, Barracura, Cisco, Microsoft, or Proofpoint
Master in writing complex object-oriented code in programming languages, preferably Python and/or PowerShell
Experience automating and configuring systems using the Configuration-as-Code (CAC), Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC), and/or Desired State Configuration (DSC) in a large enterprise environment
3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
3+ years of design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Knowledge of NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, FedRamp, ISO 27001, or similar compliance frameworks
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $116,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.