senior operations Systems Engineer ic · Posted Apr 14, 2026
$173,900 – $235,200
USD per year

About this role

Amazon is hiring a senior-level Systems Engineer in the operations function based in Cupertino, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, Java, Go, C#. Compensation is listed at $173,900–$235,200 per year.

Role
Systems Engineer
Function
operations
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Cupertino, CA
Department
Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
Posted
Apr 14, 2026

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Job description

from Amazon careers

We are seeking an experienced Senior Systems Development Engineer to lead the development of automation software for our mainstream compute and bare metal network infrastructure. You will work across multiple teams and organizations to build scalable, reliable systems that power our distributed storage platform. The AWS Hardware Engineering team creates server designs for Amazon’s innovative web services. Our designs are industry-leading in frugality and operational excellence, and are critical to the success of the AWS business and millions of customers who use AWS today. Our engineers solve challenging technology problems, and build architecturally sound, high-quality components to enable AWS to realize critical business strategies. The ideal candidate for this role will be an innovative self-starter. You are knowledgeable of the full technical stack - vertically from core platform compute and bare metal network server hardware up to the software in userland, and everything in the middle. You have tremendous interest in cloud scale and curious how systems and software decisions impact the user. You insist on highest-standards and are able to develop tactical solutions/tools to diagnose and fix issues. You are an excellent systems debugger - finding interaction issues between components on server systems. You are a leader with strong…

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