Sr Software Development Engineer, OEM Solid State Drives Team

You will be a member of the larger HWEngS Storage organization and will lead ideation design and implementation of software automation projects in the SolidState Drive (SSD) team. You will work with peers and crossfunctional experts to build software services that automate workflows for the complete lifecycle (qualifications monitoring diagnostics firmware updates replacements EOL) of SSDs and storage platforms at AWS scale.

Key job responsibilities
You will be a member of the SolidState Drives (SSDs) team responsible for delivering high quality SSDs that seamlessly integrate into your customers products on a timely fashion and consistently enhance the quality and performance of customers products fostering longterm partnerships. You will lead and develop software automation projects with the end goal of improving SSD components quality used in NPI servers (New Product Introductions) and sustaining fleet servers. As a technical leader you will bring 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 experience in architecting software services that automate previously manual workflows. Given our scale it is critical to design tools tests infrastructure that are future proof scale and are stable. A successful candidate also has a growth mindset learns fast deep dives to solve variety of issues and acts quickly to bring timely resolution to customers.

About the team
The AWS Hardware Engineering Services (HWEngS) 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.

5 years of noninternship professional software development experience
5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
Bachelors degree

7 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology
Strong understanding of OS internals most notably storage subsystems in a Linuxbased environment
Strong understanding or motivation to learn drive (SSD and/or HDD) technologies
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to collaborate
Meets/exceeds Amazons leadership principles requirements for this role
Meets/exceeds Amazons functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

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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 $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/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.