Job Description
We are looking for a System Development Engineer to design, build, and own the executive decision intelligence platform that serves senior leaders (VPs, Directors) across Amazon"s global data center fleet. This is not an analytics dashboard - it"s a system that synthesizes operational data into decisions that need to be made, complete with context, projected outcomes, and recommended actions.
This is a systems engineering role. You will build the platform infrastructure - data pipelines, aggregation engines, decision-framing logic, APIs, visualization layers, and automated briefing systems - that turns raw operational data into structured executive decisions. Where analytical models exist, you will integrate and serve them; your primary focus is building reliable, scalable, well-architected production systems that deliver the right decisions to the right leaders at the right time.
Key job responsibilities
### Build & Own the Decision Intelligence Platform
- Design and build the end-to-end platform
- Own the system architecture that surfaces structured decisions to executives
- Build metric decomposition pipelines
- Implement trend computation, projected outcomes, scenario comparison, and threshold-based alerting at multiple aggregation levels
### Data Pipeline & Platform Infrastructure
- Ingest and normalize data from multiple upstream operational systems
- Build robust ETL pipelines with defined freshness SLAs, data quality checks, and observability
- Implement caching, pre-computation, and materialized views for sub-second executive dashboard response times
### Integration & Serving
- Integrate outputs from science teams into the platform as first-class data sources
- Build the serving layer that presents analytical outputs alongside operational metrics in a unified executive experience
- Implement automated narrative generation (template-based or LLM-assisted) that produces metric commentary for executive reviews
- Design APIs that support both the web portal and automated report generation
### Web Application & Visualization
- Build interactive executive dashboards with fleet-wide views, multi-level drill-down, and scenario comparison
- Implement data visualizations optimized for non-technical senior leaders (clarity over complexity)
- Design the portal to support multiple view modes: summary cards, trend charts, tabular comparisons, commentary threads
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Seattle, WA |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1994 |
| Website | http://Amazon.com/militaryroles |
About Company
At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles