System Development Engineer, Data Center Availability Team

Amazon is hiring a System Development Engineer, Data Center Availability Team in Seattle, United States. It pays $129k-$175k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

Level's read on this job

Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
The posting mentions AWS, agentic AI and automation among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a mid-level role.
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AI in this role

System Development Engineer designing automation tools and agentic AI workflows for large-scale AWS data center infrastructure.

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At AWS, we're working to be the most customer centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, smart, and driven individual. The Data Center Availability team works with the hundreds of AWS data centers around the globe to deliver the highest quality and lowest cost physical security, availability, capacity, and scaling results for our customers. Our aim is to standardize operations globally by delivering tools, policy, processes and procedures to our internal teams.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Key job responsibilities
As a System Development Engineer, you will:

• Design software tools using advanced automation methods such as Agentic AI
* Work with business stakeholders to understand the opportunities to automate the manual work and streamline the process
* Develop and maintain software pipelines using best practices for smooth production code release.
* Suggest and implement best practices for coding, design and operational excellence.
* Mentor engineers and develop them

Basic qualifications

- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 4+ years of building scripts, tooling, and automation for large-scale computing environments experience

Preferred qualifications

- Experience building services using AWS products

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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, WA, Seattle - 129,200.00 - 174,800.00 USD annually

How we rate this

System Development Engineer, Data Center Availability Team at Amazon rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

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

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

System Development Engineer, Data Center Availability Team is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The listed salary is $129k-$175k a year.
The role is based in US, WA, Seattle.
The job was posted on June 26, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Agentic AIAutomationSystem DevelopmentInfrastructureAWS

Questions you could be asked

Tell me about a project where agentic ai was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where automation was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where system development was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where infrastructure was part of your work. What did you do?
Walk me through how you've used AWS in your day-to-day work.

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List these exact terms on your resume: Agentic AI, Automation, System Development, Infrastructure, and AWS. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.

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