System Development Engineer II, Platform Engineering and Emerging Technologies
Amazon - Herndon, Virginia, USA
Posted May 7, 2026
Benefits
- Parental leave
- 20 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- Non-birth-parent leave
- 6 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- Family-building benefits
- Mental health support
- Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- Relocation assistance
- Not verified
- Childcare support
- Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- Learning budget
- Not verified
- Verification
- Source-linked checked Jun 7, 2026
- Salary
- $129K-$175K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- 401(k) match
- Reported from DOL Form 5500 industry filing (not employer-specific)
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Market context
- U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
- $116,543 U.S. median for this role
- Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
- +9.8% - Much faster than average
30% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.
Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.
Role
Schedule
- Shift type
- Not verified
- Weekend work
- Required From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
Company
- Equity
- Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026
Application
- Cover letter
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- Assessment
- Not verified
- Deadline
- Not stated
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State eligibility is not yet verified.
About this role
System Development Engineer II, Platform Engineering and Emerging Technologies Herndon, Virginia, USA The Platform Engineering and Emerging Technologies (PEET) team is hiring for a System Development Engineer to support AWS Cryptography and PKI Services! You'll design, deploy, monitor, and automate infrastructure, tools and systems to provide a highly-available and resilient platform for our customers' and our team's workloads. Would you like to implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve the world's most complex technical problems? Do you have a deep passion and desire to engineer and operate the world's largest cloud computing infrastructure to build a better world for future generations? This is an exciting opportunity to use the latest cloud computing technologies to help U.S. Government agencies implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems. AWS established a specialized group of service teams responsible for the work we are doing with the U.S. Intelligence Community. We are building some of the largest and most complex distributed systems in the world, and we need adaptable people to help us implement and operate them. This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work. Key job responsibilities - Design, deploy, monitor, and automate infrastructure, tools and systems to provide a highly-available and resilient platform for our customers' and our team's
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