Systems Development Engineer II, US Amazon Dedicated Cloud Security Engineering
Amazon · Herndon, VA · Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Systems Engineer in the operations function based in Herndon, VA. The posting calls out experience with Python, TypeScript, Java, Go. Compensation is listed at $129,200–$174,800 per year.
- Role
- Systems Engineer
- Function
- operations
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Herndon, VA
- Department
- Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
- Posted
- May 15, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersAWS Security is looking for a driven professional to join its high-security systems engineering team to manage the operation of our physical access control system (PACS), as well as help us automate a sustainable and robust architecture for future growth. As an SysDev, you will be responsible for the overall health and security of our critical service, providing excellent customer service to our partners in a classified environment. Engineers on this team play an integral role in the future of physical security. You will own the integration with enterprise and commodity hardware through proprietary and open source protocols, build extensible management tooling by which customers are delighted, produce infrastructure as code and robust operational monitoring that scales with our growing infrastructure. You will make sure the entire deployment process is performant, automated, and well tested to keep development iteration fast and unhindered by unnecessary operational misses. This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph. Key job responsibilities - Architect and implement enterprise-scale security solutions from conception to production, including custom PACS integrations and security automation frameworks - Design and develop high-availability distributed systems with…