System Dev Engineer III, AFT Platform Engineering and Services

Amazon is hiring a System Dev Engineer III, AFT Platform Engineering and Services in Hyderabad, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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On Level's scale, this role is Uses AI ●●○○: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
Tools and skills the posting cites include GenAI, LLM and software development.
Level classifies it as a senior role.
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Senior system development engineer responsible for fulfillment platform software, leveraging generative AI and LLMs to accelerate development, debugging, and operational workflows.

GenAILLM

software-developmentdebuggingincident-triageautomation

The Amazon Fulfillment Technologies Support Team is looking for a Senior System Dev Engineer who will join the team which supports all software applications responsible for shipment, item availability, customer promises, shipment optimization and other functions related to fulfillment services process.

Your problem resolving skill will benefit customers directly, ensuring Amazon is able to meet all its commitments to our customers.

Primary responsibilities include designing systems from conception to production, troubleshooting, diagnosing and fixing production software issues, developing monitoring solutions, performing software maintenance and configuration, using AI tools where applicable, implementing the fix for internally developed code, updating, tracking and resolving technical challenges, build and develop tools which will automate daily operational activities.

Ideal Candidate should have Experience leveraging generative AI (GenAI) tools and large language model (LLM)-based assistants to accelerate software development, debugging, and operational workflows along with Hands-on experience with AI-assisted code generation, code review automation, or AI-powered incident triage tools

Responsibilities include leading or working alongside development/support teams on Amazon Corporate and Divisional Software projects, updating/enhancing our current software, designing of systems, automation of support processes and documentation of our systems.

Your solutions will impact our customers directly! This job requires you to constantly hit the ground running and your ability to learn quickly and work on disparate and overlapping tasks will define your success. High Impact production issues often require coordination between multiple Development, Operations and IT Support groups, so you get to experience a breadth of impact with various groups.

The ideal candidate must be detail oriented, have superior verbal and written communication skills, strong organizational skills, able to juggle multiple tasks at once, able to work independently and can maintain professionalism under pressure. You must be able to identify problems before they happen and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages. You must be able to accurately prioritize projects, make sound judgments, work to improve the customer experience, and get the right things done.

Key job responsibilities

* Driving your own projects, from design through planning to execution. Also work with teams across Amazon on cross-team initiatives.
* This engineer will lead the design and implementation of new tools, pipelines and automation, will work with developers, system architects, software development engineers.
* Planning and coordinating feature improvements and upgrades around services.
* Bring part of the team working on improving our service Operational Excellence and availability for PEAK periods.
* Analyzing and improving availability, efficiency, capacity, scalability, security and performance of our services.
* Representing Systems while working with internal teams and external partners.
* Troubleshooting and resolving problems with production systems as part of our on-call rotation.
* Developing, automating and maintaining tools.
* Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the software release process.
* Mentoring Junior Engineers and being part of their design reviews, code reviews and setting architectural direction along with coaching for their career growths.

A day in the life
As a Senior System Development Engineer, you will design, develop and automate AFT tools. You will manage the Operational Excellence of the infrastructure for high availability, monitor security and compliance.

Basic qualifications

- 6+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience
- 5+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations

Preferred qualifications

- Experience with distributed systems at scale

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How we rate this

System Dev Engineer III, AFT Platform Engineering and Services at Amazon rates 40 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Key facts

System Dev Engineer III, AFT Platform Engineering and Services is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 2 of 4: Uses AI.
The role is based in IN, TS, Hyderabad.
The job was posted on July 31, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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