senior operations Systems Engineer ic · Posted Feb 24, 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 Austin, TX. 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
Austin, TX
Department
Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
Posted
Feb 24, 2026
AI Summary
Senior Systems Engineer designs and debugs next-generation AWS cloud infrastructure for AI/ML workloads. Requires deep full-stack knowledge from baremetal hardware to userland software, strong systems debugging skills, and ability to deliver performance improvements at cloud scale.

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Job description

from Amazon careers

Do you want to build the backbone of Generative AI cloud at AWS? Do you want to build the future of the cloud for AI training and inference? Want to do industry leading work delivering continuous price performance improvements in the cloud for AI model training for multi billion variable LLMs? Come Join us in designing, delivering and operating AWS cloud offerings that enable high performance and scalability in AI/ML and HPC workloads. You are intrigued by the continuous release of newer AWS services and instance types that solve newer, bigger and more interesting business problems every day? Does that make you wish your talents were applied to those at cloud scale? If yes, then come join us - we are looking for builders like you. 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. What makes this role unique is your direct impact on AI-powered innovation - you’ll…

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