Systems Development Engineer, Amazon Enterprise Engineering

Amazon

Amazon

San José Province, Costa Rica
Posted on Sep 9, 2025

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for an entry-level Systems Development Engineer with a foundation in designing and supporting infrastructure solutions. You will be responsible for implementing and maintaining smaller or stand-alone components that support Amazonians.

Who are you? You have a basic understanding of computing solutions and are eager to learn more. You're starting your journey in systems development or equivalent technical role, and are excited to implement automated solutions across applications and systems. You enjoy writing code and creating tools to solve problems. You're passionate about learning and growing. You understand that different people have different needs to be productive, and are learning how to develop solutions that help others. You have enthusiasm for learning about cloud computing systems and supporting a diverse set of customers.

You're beginning your journey as an Amazonian.

The focus for this role is maintaining and enhancing components of extensible services used across Amazon. These systems leverage server-less systems such as DynamoDB, Lambda, Secrets Manager, API Gateway, among others.

Systems Development Engineers: Systems Development Engineers at Amazon is a unique role which organically emerged as the company evolved. Inspiration for the Systems Development Engineer came from Systems Engineers who "built" unique technology to solve business and customer problems.

Systems Development Engineers perform traditional Systems Engineering and writes or develops scripts, applications, or mechanisms to manage infrastructure. This role was created for the "builder" population of Systems Engineers who go beyond using basic tools and GUIs to implement infrastructure as code and even server-less systems.

Enterprise Engineering: Enterprise Engineering owns the key products, services, and tools Amazonians use to securely and reliably access corporate resources, communicate with one another, and collaborate with customers.

Enterprise Engineering builds services ranging from network access to customer-facing software to meet the needs of our number one customer: Amazon. All Amazonians and variable staff rely on our products at all Amazon Corporate, Customer Service, Fulfillment, Retail, and affiliate sites across the globe.

Amazon is a unique organization, and this is an entry-level position with great growth potential. We'll give you the opportunity to learn and make a difference to our business. We're looking for a promising professional ready to develop outstanding technical skills, with the opportunity to realize Amazon's motto: "Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History."

This role requires scheduled after hours paging for high-severity events related to all of the team's services and systems. Paging availability is required for after-hours weekday, weekend and holiday coverage. The pager rotates throughout the team to balance the load.