Systems Development Engineer, Search Resilience

Amazon is hiring a Systems Development Engineer, Search Resilience in Tokyo, Japan. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Join the Search Resilience team in Amazon Search. We perform experiments in production to harden Search against outages and make sure that whenever a customer searches for products, they find what they are looking for.

In this role you will:
- Design, implement, execute, and automate chaos experiments to continuously test Amazon Search' resilience against hardware failures, dependency outages, traffic spikes and more.
- Collaborate with service owners to remedy vulnerabilities, minimize blast radius and harden Amazon Search.
- Research tools and practices in resilience engineering and adopt them as appropriate.
- Develop and operate a distributed load generator to validate Search scaling and resilience.

Joining this team, you’ll experience the benefits of working in an entrepreneurial environment, while leveraging the resources of Amazon.com (AMZN), one of the world's leading internet companies. We are a diverse, customer-obsessed and passionate team located in Meguro, Tokyo.

At Amazon, you'll work alongside the latest AI and GenAI tools that are increasingly woven into how teams operate: from AI-powered capabilities that accelerate decision-making, to Generative AI that helps you focus on work that truly matters. You'll have opportunities and resources to develop AI fluency at your own pace, with continuous learning built into the culture.

Key job responsibilities
- Develop and maintain our chaos experiment orchestrator
- Design, execute, automate, and maintain chaos experiments
- Develop and maintain our distributed load generator
- Develop and maintain our petabyte-scale log archival and query service
- Join a 12/12 on-call rotation for incident response and mitigation

Basic qualifications

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

Preferred qualifications

- Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering
- Experience with distributed operational health and performance monitoring systems
- Experience with chaos engineering and/or Site Reliability Engineering

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Systems Development Engineer, Search Resilience at Amazon rates 27 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.

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