Sr. System Development Engineer, AWS Mainstream Compute

About the role

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

Key job responsibilities

• You will be a technical leader solving complex architectural problems which may not defined before hand.
• You will manage a mix of software and system engineers that are pushing the technology envelope with novel inventions to design and validate products at scale.
• You will understand the current infrastructure and come up with plans to improve the tools and processes for designing, validating and monitoring fleet performance of the products.
• You will interact with internal interdisciplinary teams, overseeing the platform development efforts and the test content and working with the component partner teams to drive the requirements for the platform.
• You will oversee the system integration, development and testing for the tools that validate sub systems(CPU/memory/PCIe/power etc).
• You will standardize testing and define telemetry and alarming for the platforms the team designs.
• Maintaining healthy vendor relationships is critical to stay ahead of the curve, including proactive communication and rapidly resolving issues.

A day in the life

Working with a variety of job roles (SDEs, SDETs, Hardware Engineers, TPMs, Managers, Principals) and groups (AWS Hardware Engineering, EC2, other AWS services) through server conception, test, launch, and operations. Driving high quality and reliability into future/new designs for AWS core compute and bare metal server solutions for AWS Cloud.

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.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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