Sr. System Development Engineer, AWS Hardware Development

Come work on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Edge and Specialized Hardware (ESH) test development and automation team. We are a team that owns develops and delivers the tools and infrastructure enabling Edge Outposts Specialized Hardware and Archival Storage platforms. The AWS Hardware Engineering (HWEng) team that we are part of 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.
AWS edge services deliver data processing analysis and storage close to your endpoints allowing you to deploy APIs and tools to locations outside AWS data centers. Outposts is part of the broader AWS Infrastructure Services which owns the design planning delivery and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words were the people who builds and keeps 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.
To learn more about edge and outposts you can visit: are a small team within a big enterprise. This allows us to take risks and experiment allows team members to flex their technical muscles and grow in their respective careers and an unique opportunity to be part of the products growth story. Youll join a diverse team of software and system engineers. Youll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for quality 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 ideal candidate for this role is knowledgeable of the full technical stack from hardware up to the software. You have tremendous interest in cloud scale and curious how systems and software decisions impact users. You insist on the higheststandards and are able to develop tactical solutions/tools to diagnose and fix issues. You are an excellent systems debugger finding interaction issues between components on server systems. You are a leader with strong organizational planning and communication skills. You are a builder!

Key job responsibilities
You will be part of a team that solves systemic issues drives changes back into development and builds mechanisms to scale and efficiently operate our infrastructure at the Edge Outposts and Specialized hardware platforms. As a member of the AWS Hardware Engineering Services team you will work with other subject matter experts in compute memory storage technologies to develop and deliver the best customer experience in cloud computing.
We aim to hire engineers who will thrive in a fastpaced collaborative and open environment who arent afraid to divedeep to solve seemingly impossible challenges who want to build rock solid neverfail highlysecure hardware at worldclass scale and who obsess over customers.

A day in the life
Lead the System Development (SysDE) effort to define and build software and enabling tools according to defined HWEng Software development best practices and develop automation with the end goal of improving the ESH platforms.
Key Responsibilities for this position include leading and implementing software (SW) best practices author requirement documents for new architecture publish comprehensive design docs along with tradeoffs SW development testing and building diagnostic tools for continuous monitoring.
A successful candidate in this role has prior understanding of server design and architecture to improve security handson debugging experience on Linux systems and familiarity with kernel drivers and OS level software. Given our scale it is critical to design tools tests infra that are future proof scale and are stable.

About the team
The team is comprised of Software Development Engineers and System Design Engineers all with the common goal of delivering the best server fleet possible to our customers.

5 years of programming with at least one modern language such as C C# Java Python Golang PowerShell Ruby experience
6 years of noninternship professional software development experience
6 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
6 years of systems design software development operations automation and process improvement experience
Experience leading the design build and deployment of complex and performant (reliable and scalable) software solutions in production
Experience with x86 architecture as well as ARM and FPGA devices
Experience with modern technology devices in network memory as well as a variety of interface standards and protocols (I2C IPMI SPI PCIe)
Excellent problem solving skills; ability to invent and simplify
BS degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or other technical degree or relevant work experience

7 years of SysDE (Systems Development Engineer) or equivalent experience
7 years of server systems debug experience; debugging and root causing complex server platforms
7 years of experience contributing towards increasing durability security availability and scalability of systems through exploration diagnosis and remediation
Experience integrating software applications into automated environments
Experience developing deploying and owning cloud applications
Familiarity with AWS and EC2 with ideally hands on experience
Experience in developing functional design specifications validation plans and functional test procedures
Excellent leadership verbal and written communication skills

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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.