Systems Development Engineer II, Ads AI Core Infra (ACI)

Description

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a key role in managing the customer experience elements as well as the complex systems behind them. You will have the opportunity to support one of the most critical technical stacks in Amazon and work on tasks that helps to improve tech productivity and efficiency of the org.

Key job responsibilities

Responsibilities

Systems Development Engineer will contribute to all aspects of agile systems development life cycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing, and operations. Primary responsibilities include:

• Owning end-to-end design, development, deployment, and operation of Work Management Platform modules and features.
• Leading technical design for medium-to-large platform feature initiatives, making sound architectural decisions that balance complexity, scalability, and delivery speed.
• Developing tools, automation, and monitoring solutions; defining operational processes and improving operational excellence and readiness of platform systems.
• Engineering data pipelines, workflow orchestration, and integrations between the platform and upstream/downstream systems using AWS-native services (Step Functions, Lambda, DynamoDB).
• Building proactive monitoring with fail-fast alerting across mission-critical platform workflows to ensure system reliability and early issue detection.
• Troubleshooting, diagnosing, and fixing production software issues; implementing fixes for internally developed code with urgency.
• Reducing operational toil through force-multiplier tooling, infrastructure automation, and platform self-service capabilities.
• Collaborating with product managers and operations leaders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and drive the platform product roadmap.
• Contributing to design reviews and code reviews with substantive technical feedback; mentoring junior engineers on the team.
  
  

A day in the life

As a SysDE II, your role is pivotal in maintaining the robust and innovative solutions of our team. You will work on complex challenges in both platform maintenance and new feature development, focusing on areas with ambiguity. Your goal is to design and develop software systems that are secure, maintainable, scalable, and extendable. You will own the full engineering lifecycle - from design through deployment and operations - driving architectural decisions, leading feature delivery, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring operational excellence.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 5+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 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 CI/CD pipelines build processes
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems at scale
• Experience utilizing AWS cloud solutions in a DevOps environment
• Experience building services using AWS products
  
  

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Company - ADCI - Karnataka

Job ID: A10463755