Sr. Software Development Engineer, Nitro SSD

About the role

AWS Hardware Engineering is a fast-growing team that develops enterprise compute and storage server designs for AWS's innovative web service and e-commerce technology platforms. Our designs are industry-leading in terms of performance, efficiency, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Solve challenging technology problems and build architecturally sound, high-quality components to enable AWS to achieve its business goals.
• Collaborate with engineers across the company as well as external companies to lead firmware development efforts on custom solid-state devices.
• Work closely with AWS software engineers to tailor devices for the AWS environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship 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
• Experience in embedded development in C/C++
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Bachelor's degree, or Master's degree
• Deep understanding of SSD hardware architecture and SSD concepts such as wear-leveling, garbage collection, etc.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience developing firmware for SSD and other related storage devices
• High-level understanding of storage technologies and associated block interface protocols

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 10+ years of hands-on experience developing firmware for SSD and other related storage devices
• Deep understanding of SSD hardware architecture and SSD concepts such as wear-leveling, garbage collection, etc.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience developing firmware for SSD and other related storage devices
• High-level understanding of storage technologies and associated block interface protocols

Skills

• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Deep understanding of SSD hardware architecture and SSD concepts such as wear-leveling, garbage collection, etc.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience developing firmware for SSD and other related storage devices
• High-level understanding of storage technologies and associated block interface protocols

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and parental leave. For more information, visit here.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $168,100.00 - $227,400.00 USD annually.

Schedule

Our team works flexible hours to accommodate the needs of the business and our employees.