The Systems Development Engineer role at Amazon focuses on bridging traditional media workflows with modern cloud infrastructure to enhance film and television production. The Production Platform Engineering team is dedicated to building and maintaining cloud-native capabilities that support various post-production workflows. This position involves solving complex technical challenges that impact high-budget productions and requires collaboration with product management and production technology teams. The role emphasizes ownership, technical depth, and customer obsession in a fast-paced environment.

• 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#, or Rust.
• Experience with Linux/Unix.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes.
• Experience in systems administration, network administration, AWS cloud app development, DevOps, or site reliability engineering.
• Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems.
• Experience implementing AWS services.
• 2+ years of networking experience including DNS, DHCP, SSL, OSI Model, and TCP/IP.
• Knowledge of security best practices.
• Experience with distributed systems at scale.

• Build new cloud-native capabilities for VFX rendering and management, sound mixing, QC, mastering, delivery, and remote production workflows.
• Improve and scale existing Editorial, Dailies, Color, and Conform workflows supporting active productions.
• Translate complex post-production workflows into infrastructure-as-code using CloudFormation or CDK.
• Troubleshoot production-impacting issues across the full stack, diving as deep as needed to unblock creative teams.
• Design and implement solutions using AWS compute, storage, and networking services optimized for high-throughput media workloads.
• Build secure infrastructure following AWS best practices for encryption, IAM policies, VPC design, and authentication mechanisms.
• Collaborate with Product Management and internal Production Technology teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Automate operational tasks and build self-service tools that empower production teams.

• Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.