Sr Systems Development Engineer: Intelligent Building Systems, Building Integration and Data - GREF Tech
DESCRIPTION
The Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF) Tech team, part of Finance Automation, develops services, products, and tools to enable Amazon's corporate real estate team to build and operate the company's global facilities in more than 60 countries, which is the largest corporate real estate footprint in the world. We develop building systems that deliver a seamless, adaptive, and creative workspace experience to more than half a million employees. Our mission is to create technology that simplifies the processes Amazon employs to manage its corporate real estate. Our teams build services and products that support various GREF domains, including space and occupancy planning, design and construction, employee health and safety, sustainability, and building management systems requiring IoT expertise. If you possess the skills to build, operate, and scale the next generation of distributed systems supporting Amazon's growth, this role may be well-suited for you.
We are seeking a passionate senior systems development engineer who can help us invent the next generation of real estate systems and support the GREF organization. The ideal candidate for this role will be a self-starter and is comfortable with ambiguity. Building highly scalable solutions would be the basis of their work. They will enjoy learning, inventing and implementing new technologies. A Systems Development Engineer (SysDE) at Amazon works on real complex systems at a global scale, owns their systems end to end and influences the direction of our technology that impacts hundreds of thousands of Amazon employees around the world. Coming to Amazon gives you the opportunity to work on development teams in one of our many rapidly growing organizations. Come join us in making history!
The main area of activity for this role is to lead the development and integration of intelligent systems that will become the nervous system of the largest corporate building fleet globally. The North Star for this team is to establish standards for the operational technology stack in GREF buildings, and deploy it so that Amazon gains better controllership over the environmental conditions of their buildings, utilization modes of spaces offered to users and the consumption of energy and utility billing which contribute to Amazon’s Climate Pledge of becoming carbon neutral ultimately.
Key job responsibilities
As a Sr Systems Development Engineer in GREF Tech you are responsible to design, architect, develop, test, deploy and deliver scalable, multi-tiered systems, platforms or services using modern languages, design patterns, frameworks and technologies. You will take the lead on defining and implementing engineering best practices and using data to define and improve operational best practices. You will drive the architecture and technology choices for building systems and intelligence that will raise the bar on user experience.
A day in the life
Your daily activity will involve integrating a large network of sensors and building management systems (BMS) into a framework that leverages the power of AWS technologies to inform Amazon on the health of our building systems and the quality of the work environment we offer our employees. This includes air quality, optimized equipment maintenance schedules, optimized meeting vs. desk spaces, or informing people on utilization rates of their floor, or parking space, etc.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
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