Systems Development Engineer, Amazon Enterprise Engineering

Amazon is hiring a Systems Development Engineer, Amazon Enterprise Engineering in San Jose, United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

Level's read on this job

On Level's scale, this role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
The posting mentions DynamoDB, AWS Lambda and AWS Secrets Manager among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a mid-level role.
Amazon has 20,000+ other open roles on Level.
Posted within the past two weeks.

AI in this role

Design, build, and maintain enterprise-scale serverless infrastructure and automated internal tools.

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We are looking for an experienced Systems Development with deep expertise in designing and supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure. You will be responsible for the design, implementation and quality of services you deliver to Amazionians.

Who are you? You have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions. You have experience working as a systems development or in an enterprise environment, and have implemented automated solutions across a variety of applications and systems. You enjoy writing code and creating to manage your services. You’re passionate about success. You understand different people have different needs to be productive, and strive to develop self-service oriented solutions. You have a passion for learning, designing, and building cloud computing systems for a diverse set of customers.

You’re an Amazonian.

The focus for this role is building, enhancing, and maintaining extensible services used across Amazon. These systems leverage server-less systems such as DynamoDB, Lambda, Secrets Manager, API Gateway, among others.

Systems Development Engineers: Systems Development Engineers at Amazon is a unique role which organically emerged as the company evolved. Inspiration for the Systems Development Engineer came from Systems Engineers who “built” unique technology to solve business and customer problems.

Systems Development Engineers perform traditional Systems Engineering and writes or develops scripts, applications, or mechanisms to manage infrastructure. This role was created for the “builder” population of Systems Engineers who go beyond using basic tools and GUIs to implement infrastructure as code and even server-less systems.

Enterprise Engineering: Enterprise Engineering owns the key products, services, and tools Amazonians use to securely and reliably access corporate resources, communicate with one another, and collaborate with customers.

Enterprise Engineering builds services ranging from network access to customer-facing software to meet the needs of our number one customer: Amazon. All Amazonians and variable staff rely on our products at all Amazon Corporate, Customer Service, Fulfillment, Retail, and affiliate sites across the globe.

Amazon is a unique organization, and this an above average job. We’ll give you the opportunity to make a difference to our business. We’re looking for an exceptional professional with outstanding technical skills, with the opportunity to realize Amazon’s motto: “Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History.”

This role requires scheduled after hours paging for high-severity events related to all of the team's services and systems. Paging availability is required for after-hours weekday, weekend and holiday coverage. The pager rotates throughout the team to balance the load.

Basic qualifications

- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix

Preferred qualifications

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

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.

How we rate this

Systems Development Engineer, Amazon Enterprise Engineering at Amazon rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● 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

Systems Development Engineer, Amazon Enterprise Engineering is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in CR, San Jose.
The job was posted on October 27, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Tell me about a project where systems engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
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Tell me about a project where scripting 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?

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