Sr. System Development Engineer, Storage System Development

We are seeking an experienced Senior Systems system Engineer to lead the development of automation software for our storage infrastructure. You will work across multiple teams and organizations to build scalable reliable systems that power our distributed storage platform.


Key job responsibilities
- Lead the development of automation software across teams
- Design and build scalable system-level software with focus on durability availability security and diagnostics
- Develop and maintain device drivers for Linux on ARM and x86 architectures
- Debug and resolve Linux boot and runtime issues across different processor architectures
- Build automation solutions using modern programming languages (Python Ruby Java etc.)
- Work with OS internals and storage subsystems in Linux-based environments
- Collaborate with teams working on distributed storage systems and storage hardware
- Troubleshoot complex system-level issues in production environments
- Help design servers make them more robust

A day in the life
Lead the Hardware Engineering (HWEng) System Development (SysDE) effort to define and build software and enabling tools; 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 on-boarding new storage servers into their ecosystem. Build manage and deploy pipelines for rapid deployment of new code changes to a variety of org-owned and customer-owned systems. Build monitoring tools and metrics to ensure hardware is running properly in both lab 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 well-running engineering product.

- 5 years of programming with at least one modern language such as C C# Java Python Golang PowerShell Ruby experience
- 5 years of non-internship 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 development in an IT or data center environment experience
- 5 years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
- 5 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

- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing certification and livesite operations
- Experience taking a leading role in building complex software or computing infrastructure that has been successfully delivered to customers
- 6 years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Bash/Perl) experience
- 10 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Knowledge of AWS services such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and Simple Storage Service (S3)
- Experience in compute and storage server architecture and design for large scale applications
- Experience in Unix or experience scripting in modern programming languages

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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 $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 job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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.