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Amazon Systems Development Engineer: Intelligent Building Systems, FinAuto GREF Technology, Amazon in Arlington, Virginia
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 systems development engineer who can help us create 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, and excels at building highly scalable solutions. They will enjoy learning, inventing and implementing new technologies. A Software Development Engineer (SDE) at Amazon works on real world problems on a global scale, owns their systems end to end and influences the direction of our technology that impacts hundreds of millions of customers 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 Systems Development Engineer in GREF Tech you are responsible to design, architect, develop, test, deploy and deliver scalable, multi-tiered applications, 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
Combine IOT, 1st party and 3rd party systems, including sensors, building management systems, and AI, to derive tangible intelligence about how Amazonians use their office buildings and spaces offered to them to produce value everyday.
About the team
The GREF Tech team has had around 20 team members for the past 4 years. We have a unique opportunity to create 13 specialized charters and expand the total org size to 120 by end of 2025. We are responsible for systems that run more than 500 Amazon buildings and feed information to facility engineering teams, as well as the user experience offered to Amazonians when they work in Amazon Corporate Offices, including their commute to work.
Basic Qualifications
Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting 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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