Sr System Development Engineer Storage Systems Team

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design planning delivery and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words were the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers storage networking power and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain and were looking for talented people who want to help.

Youll join a diverse team of software hardware and network engineers supply chain specialists security experts operations managers and other vital roles. Youll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And youll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

The AWS Hardware Engineering team creates server designs for Amazons innovative web services. Our designs are industryleading in frugality and operational excellence and are critical to the success of the AWS business and the more than one million customers who use AWS today. Our engineers solve challenging technology problems and build architecturally sound highquality components to enable AWS to realize critical business strategies.

The ideal candidate for this role will have a proven track record of rapidly coming up to speed on new engineering disciplines making impactful decisions within that space and have experience gluing together components written by more specialized engineers to create a cohesive wellrunning engineering product. AWS Engineers are shaping the way people use computers and designing the future of cloud computing technology come help us make history!

What you will do: You will be a member of the HWEng Storage Systems team and will interact with engineers across the company to lead the development of AWS storage servers and devices. Key Responsibilities for this position include authoring requirements specifications system design and development all while testing at each phase. There are two main areas of focus for this position: software test development and integration to enable storage hardware and system debugging for production hosts.

Why it matters: Public cloud IT services represent the majority of growth in the overall IT services market and will continue to do so for several years to come. The scale of AWS combined with an understanding of how our hardware is used creates a unique opportunity for component customization that will directly benefit customers.

Why you will love it: You will work with engineers across the company to build nextgeneration storage servers. You will have a direct impact on our bottom line and the ability to deliver improvements for our developers. You will be part of a growing fast paced and fun team. You will have ownership for the implementation of your work. You will see direct product improvements based on the results of your work.





Key job responsibilities
Must have leadership experience developing automation software spanning across multiple teams and multiple organizations.
Must have experience designing and building systemlevel software at scale with an emphasis on durability availability security and diagnostics.
Must have a strong understanding of OS internals most notably storage subsystems in a Linuxbased environment.
Must have demonstrated experience with building and troubleshooting device drivers for Linux on ARM and x86.
Must have demonstrated experience debugging Linux boot and runtime problems on ARM and x86.
Desirable to have an understanding of AWS services specifically distributed storage systems and use of storage hardware
Must have experience hands on development of automation software in at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Java or others.

A day in the life
Lead the Hardware Engineering (HWEng) System Development (SysDE) effort to define and build software and enabling tools according to defined HWEng Software development best practices; Track and report progress. Work across internal HWEng teams to ensure new storage hardware addresses data path and control path functionality needed by the EC2 EBS and S3 teams. Work closely with internal customers to identify early any potential problems with onboarding new storage servers into their ecosystem. Build manage and deploy pipelines for rapid deployment of new code changes to a variety of orgowned and customerowned systems. Build monitoring tools and metrics to ensure hardware is running properly in both test and production environments.

About the team
System Development Engineers in AWS Hardware Engineering wear many hats. From orchestration tooling development to hardware integration to kernel driver debugging we dive deep into problems across the breadth of AWS. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of rapidly coming up to speed on new engineering disciplines making impactful decisions within that space and have experience gluing together components written by more specialized engineers to create a cohesive wellrunning engineering product.

*Why AWS*
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*Diverse Experiences*
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*Work/Life Balance*
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5 years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
5 years of programming with at least one modern language such as C C# Java Python Golang PowerShell Ruby experience
5 years of noninternship professional software development experience
5 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
5 years of systems design software development operations automation and process improvement experience
5 years of Linux Storage experience and experience building installing and debugging storage device drivers.

10 years of leadership experience developing automation software spanning across multiple teams and multiple organizations.
10 years of experience designing and building systemlevel software at scale with an emphasis on durability availability security and diagnostics.
Must have a strong understanding of OS internals most notably storage subsystems in a Linuxbased environment.
Must have demonstrated experience with building and troubleshooting device drivers for Linux on ARM and x86.
Must have demonstrated experience debugging Linux boot and runtime problems on ARM and x86.
Desirable to have an understanding of AWS services specifically distributed storage systems and use of storage hardware

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $235200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.