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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # System Development Engineer, Elastic Disaster... - **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc. - **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States - **Salary:** $148,700.0 - $201,200.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Microsoft Windows, Amazon Web Services, Build Automation, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Software as a Service, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Data Loss, Linux, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Systems, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Linux Distribution, Systems Development Life Cycle, Ruby, Rust (Programming Language), Build Management, Build Process, Golang - **Published:** August 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gnclcs ## About the Role Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure - Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust - Experience with Linux/Unix - Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes Preferred Qualifications - Experience with distributed systems at scale ## Description We are looking for a Systems Development Engineer to build the automation, tooling, and operational infrastructure that keep this large-scale, mission-critical service reliable, secure, and efficient. In this role you will treat operations as a software problem - eliminating manual toil, hardening our deployment and monitoring systems, and ensuring our replication and recovery fleet runs flawlessly across a broad and heterogeneous environment. A key dimension of this role is breadth: DRS supports a wide range of operating systems (multiple Linux distributions and Windows versions) and both x86/64 and ARM64 (Graviton) architectures, so your automation and tooling must be robust across diverse OS and hardware combinations., * Operational automation: Design and build software that automates infrastructure provisioning, deployments, and recurring operational workflows, reducing manual effort and on-call burden across the DRS fleet. * CI/CD and deployment safety: Build and improve pipelines, deployment guardrails, and rollback mechanisms to ship changes safely across all regions and platform variants. * Cross-platform support: Develop and maintain tooling that works reliably across a wide range of operating systems (various Linux distributions and Windows) and both x86/64 and ARM64 (Graviton) architectures. * Monitoring and resilience: Implement monitoring, alarming, and self-healing systems to detect and remediate issues before they impact customers' replication and recovery operations. * Scaling and performance: Tune and scale the systems behind continuous replication, capacity management, and recovery orchestration to handle growth gracefully. * Operational excellence: Drive down ticket and incident volume through durable, programmatic fixes; lead root-cause analysis and contribute to runbooks and operational best practices. * Security and compliance: Partner with security teams to harden the service and remediate findings, ensuring fixes are deployed consistently across the fleet. * Cross-team leverage: Build automation and tooling that serves multiple teams and raises the operational bar across DRS. About the team AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is a disaster recovery service provided by AWS that enables organizations to minimize downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications. 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