The Amazon EC2 Commercial Software Services team is seeking a Senior System Development Engineer to create solutions that drive the adoption of SAP workloads on AWS. As a member of the team, you'll design, develop, and own back-end subsystems that solve complex distributed system challenges. The ideal candidate has deep technical skills in SAP applications and cloud computing, allowing them to create innovative solutions that meet the needs of customers and the SAP community. Your SAP domain expertise, SAP BASIS / ABAP skills are essential to making a significant impact in this role.
As a Senior System Development Engineer, you'll be responsible for the entire service lifecycle, collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive operational excellence and customer success. If you’re ready to contribute to AWS's growth and work with the latest technologies, from machine learning to advanced processors, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Be actively involved in daily engineering activities, providing hands-on technical guidance and support.
- Lead architecture, design, and proof-of-concept efforts for end-to-end project delivery, ensuring high quality and simplicity in complex systems.
- Design, implement, deploy, and maintain innovative distributed system software to enhance service security, durability, availability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
- Take ownership of complex projects, managing broad scopes with autonomy and accountability.
- Stay current with evolving technologies, proactively researching new advancements to recommend and integrate into projects.
- Apply software engineering best practices to maintain a high standard of quality across all team deliverables.
In summary, you'll play a crucial role in the design and implementation of strategic services, focused on enhancing enterprise cloud adoption, particularly for SAP workloads. In this role, you'll lead and excel with minimal technical supervision, work closely with senior engineers, and have direct influence over the direction of the team.
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.
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We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. GRUNDQUALIFIKATIONEN• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience managing efforts in Unix/Linux environments, distributed systems or developing large-scale web applications
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers, or experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Expertise in SAP Domain including SAP ABAP programming language skills, as well as knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needsBEVORZUGTE QUALIFIKATIONEN• Experience programming with at least one software programming language, or experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience leading and influencing your team or organization, or experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
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