The Systems Development Engineer role at Amazon Web Services focuses on enabling and expanding AWS Marketplace into isolated and government cloud regions. The team, known as the AWS Marketplace Special Regions Enablement Team, is responsible for building the tooling, automation, and infrastructure that support service teams in high-security environments. The position requires a candidate with an active TS/SCI security clearance and emphasizes collaboration, innovation, and operational excellence. Engineers in this role will work autonomously on complex problems that directly impact service deployment for government customers.

• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 1+ years of designing or architecting new and existing systems experience
• 4+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems, and hands-on systems engineering experience
• Bachelor's degree or CSSLP certification
• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals including networking, storage, and operating systems
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, or Ruby
• Current, active TS/SCI US Government Security Clearance
• Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology
• Experience in an AWS environment including VPC, EC2, EBS, S3, SQS, CloudFormation, and Lambda
• Experience working with or having knowledge of cloud computing and existing cloud technologies

• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure-as-code for deploying Marketplace services into classified partitions
• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines tailored to air-gapped and isolated environments
• Partner directly with service teams to unblock their regional deployments and resolve environment-specific issues
• Drive automation that reduces operational toil and improves deployment velocity across regions
• Contribute to operational readiness reviews and region launch activities
• Troubleshoot complex cross-service and cross-region issues, researching root causes and driving resolution
• Leverage and build AI-powered tooling to accelerate operational workflows and improve developer productivity
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support mission-critical regional services

• 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.